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B. Biographies of Speakers
Pages 223-238

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... His accomplishments include leadership of an engagement for a $75-billion organization focused on creating the need for an e-business security strategy and defining the security architecture required; leadership of an engagement for a $5-billion multi-national cosmetic and beauty care company focused on the development of comprehensive business solutions associated with their dot-coin business launch; leadership of an engagement for a $12-billion food service company including the development of an e-business competitive strategy and technology architecture, resulting in the creation of a new company focused on net markets; leadership of an engagement for an Internet freight transportation procurement company, including the assessment of competitive market strategies and required e-business applications; working with client senior management to aggressively pursue significant revenue growth and customer expansion; leadership of global * As of October 2000.
From page 224...
... Aho joined Lucent Technologies as Associate Research Vice President, Communications Sciences Research Division, in June 1997. He is currently Computing Sciences Research Vice President with responsibility for the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and the Bell Labs Research Center in Beijing, China.
From page 225...
... In 1970 the nuclear physics laboratories were badly damaged in a terrorist bombing. Borchers moved to the graduate school as Associate Dean for Physical sciences partly to aid in the reconstruction of the damaged labs.
From page 226...
... forthcoming in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity in Micro. Professional affiliations include AEA, Econometric Society (fellow)
From page 227...
... . He also sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Gallaudet University, the MCI WorldCom Foundation, Nuance Corporation, Avanex Corporation, CoSine Corporation, 2BNatural Corporation, B2B Video Networks, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Internet Policy Institute and the Hynomics Corporation.
From page 228...
... degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; and Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain.
From page 229...
... Ganek was Director of Solutions Development, IBM Telecommunications and Media Industry Unit. In this capacity he was responsible for development activity supporting IBM's telecommunications and media industry customers worldwide, including regional and interexchange carriers, cable and wireless providers, broadcasters, entertainment companies, sports industry, and publishers.
From page 230...
... In 1992 he was named Programming Systems Director, Quality and Development Operations, and led quality programs for the Programming Systems Division; he was also responsible for the software development process, including tools, technology, metrics, information development, and software service for IBM's software community. He joined the Telecommunications and Media Industry Unit in 1994 and assumed his current responsibilities in January 1998.
From page 231...
... His research interests cover a wide variety of topics in the economics of high technology. He has studied buyer benefits from advances in computing and communication technology, structural change in information technology markets, standardization in electronics markets, investment in digital infrastructure at private and public firms, the spread of the commercial Internet business, and government procurement of computing services.
From page 232...
... He served as President of the Econometric Society in 1987. Jorgenson received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 1971.
From page 233...
... During this time the Redmond laboratory grew over threefold to include research in such new areas as networking, data mining, computer mediated collaboration, streaming media, devices, and new development tools. Dan joined Microsoft Research in March 1992 as senior researcher in the area of user interfaces and computer graphics and was one of the founders of the laboratory.
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... Maxwell graduated from Brown University and Yale University Law School. He has written and spoken widely on issues involving electronic commerce, telecommunications, and technology policy.
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... In his 11 years at Sun he was also chief information officer, chief financial officer, acting vice president of human resources, and vice president of corporate planning and development. Prior to Sun he had senior executive roles at Xerox Corporation and McGrawHill.
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... WILLIAM J SPENCER Bill Spencer recently retired as Chairman of SEMATECH, a research and development consortium consisting of 14 international corporations involved in semiconductor manufacturing.
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... Venneri also chairs NASA's Technology Leadership Council, whose members consist of the Enterprise Associate Administrators, the Chief Engineer and Chief Information Officer, the Comptroller and NASA Center Directors. Before being named Chief Technologist Mr.
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... He was responsible for the technical direction, management, and coordination of programs in spacecraft design technology, structural dynamics, computational analysis and design methodology, and aircraft and engine materials and structures technology.


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