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III APPENDIXES: Appendix A Biographies of Speakers
III APPENDIXES: Appendix A Biographies of Speakers
Pages 177-191
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Her selected recent publications include Beyond Late Deelopment: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies, coauthored with Wan-wen Chu (MIT Press, June 2003) ; The Rise of "the Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Countries (Oxford University Press, 2001)
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He has held several R&D related positions, including serving as director of the High Efficiency Energy Technology Research Center at National Chiao Tung University from 2000 to 2001; director of the Mechanical Manufacturing & Heat Flow Research Center at National Chiao Tung University from 1999 to 2001; chief of staff at National Chiao Tung University from 1995 to 1998; vice dean of the College of Engineering at National Chiao Tung University from 1992 to 1993; chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Chiao Tung University from 1991 to 1995; professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Chiao Tung University from 1989 to the present; visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley from 1985 to 1986; and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Chiao Tung University from 1984 to 1989.
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Under his leadership, GE introduced numerous new leadership products, including digital X-ray and advanced ultrasound medical imagers, high-efficiency turbines for power generation, advanced lighting and electronics-based appliances and weatherable plastics to name a few. Other highlights of his tenure include significant advances in hightechnology services and Internet applications and Corporate R&D's leadership of the Design for Six Sigma quality and e-Engineering initiatives throughout the GE businesses.
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He is on advisory boards of the Physics Department and Bio Engineering Department of the University of Washington and of the Harvard Medical and Beth Israel Deaconess Shapiro Research and Education Institute in Boston. He is also on the board of directors of two public corporations, Silicon Graphics, and Sonic Innovation, two private corporate boards, and is chair of the Laboratory Advisory Committee of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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Dr. Kahaner has been the Asian chair for a variety of international conferences and chair of the International Organizing Committees for the conference series HPC-Asia, which has been held seven times in as many different Asian cities since 1995.
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Knox was an Air Force JAG officer for six years and then in active reserves, taught at the Air Force JAG School on the legal aspects of information warfare and homeland security for two years. He spent his last two years as a reservist assigned as legal counsel to the Joint Task Force on Global Network Attack.
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In recent years, his duty has been the strategic planning of the National Technology Agency, Tekes, as the deputy director general. Part of his work is to look for the best practices in leading technology and innovation policy countries.
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Marburger served on numerous boards and committees, including chair of the governor's commission on the Shoreham Nuclear Power facility, and chair of the 80 campus Universities Research Association, which operates Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. He served as a trustee of Princeton University and many other organizations.
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His research interests include identifying emerging markets and technologies to enable growth in new and existing companies with special emphases on technology identification and selection, product development, and technology competencies.
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Spencer was named chairman emeritus of the SEMATECH Board in November 2000 after serving as chairman of the SEMATECH and International SEMATECH Boards since July 1996. He came to SEMATECH in October 1990 as president and chief executive officer.
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Department of Commerce by Presidential appointment. He has served as a senior policy advisor to NIST directors, as a consultant to the Department of Commerce's Technology Administration, and as Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Commerce.
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VanDevender was the chief information officer and was responsible for the information infrastructure, for cyber security, and for making information technology a compelling advantage for doing science, engineering, and manufacturing. He has also been the director of the Strategic Sciences Center, National Industrial Alliance Center, Corporate Communications Center, and Pulsed Power Sciences Center.
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Government, international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) , and leading technology agencies in Europe and Asia, and lectures at major universities in the United States and abroad.
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