Norman R.
Augustine
Vice Chairman and CEO
Lockheed Martin Corporation-USA
Norman R. Augustine
is currently a member of the faculty of Princeton University. He served and
Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation
until his retirement. He had previously served as President of the
Corporation, a position he assumed upon the merger of Lockheed and Martin
Marietta in 1995. Before the merger, Mr. Augustine served as Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Martin Marietta Corporation from 1988-1995.
Mr. Augustine joined Martin Marietta in 1977 as Vice President of Aerospace
Technical Operations. In 1980, he was appointed Vice President of Aerospace
Operations with responsibility for engineering, production, quality,
strategic planning, capital expenditures, and international programs. In
1982 he was elected a corporate Vice President and President of Martin
Marietta Denver Aerospace. Mr. Augstine was named Senior Vice President of
the Corporation in 1985, with primary responsibility for two major operating
companies, Martin Marietta Information and Communications Systems and Martin
Marietta Data Systems. Later in 1985 he was named Executive Vice President,
and in January 1986 he became President and Chief Operating Officer and was
elected a director of the Corporation. Mr. Augustine was elected Vice
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1987 and became Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer in 1988.
Prior to joining Martin Marietta, Mr. Augustine served as Under Secretary of
the Army from 1975—1977. Previously, he served as Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Research and Development in 1973 and 1974, and from 1965 to 1970
served in the research and engineering organization of the Office of the
Secretary of Defense. He was Vice President of Advanced Programs for the
Vought Missiles and Space Company, a unit of the LTV Corporation, from 1970
to 1973, and earlier in his career was an engineering executive with Douglas
Aircraft Company from 1958 to 1965.
Mr. Augustine received a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering
(magna cum laude) in 1957 and a master’s degree in 1959, both from Princeton
University.
Mr. Augustine has served as chairman of organizations such as the American
Red Cross, the National Academy of Engineering, the Defense Policy Advisory
Committee on Trade, and the Defense Science Board. He has received honorary
degrees from 17 colleges and universities. He received the National Medal of
Technology, the Distinguished Service Medal from the Department of Defense
on five different occasions, the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the NASA
Distinguished Public Service Medal, and the Department of Treasury Medal of
Merit, among others.
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JOSEPH BORDOGNA
Deputy Director, NSF-USA
Dr. Bordogna is Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer
of the National Science Foundation. Complementing his NSF duties, he has
chaired committees on Manufacturing and Environmental Technologies within the
President’s National Science and Technology Council, he was a member of the
Federal Government’s Technology Reinvestment Project Team (TRP), and he serves
on the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles Committee (PNGV) and the
U.S.-Japan Joint Optoelectronics Project.
Dr. Bordogna received the BSEE and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Pennsylvania and the S.M. degree from M.I.T. His career includes experience as
a line officer in the U.S. Navy, a practicing engineer in industry, a
professor at the university, a president of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers), and a leader in science and technology policy in the
government.
Prior to his appointment at NSF, he served at the University of Pennsylvania
as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering, Director of the Moore
School of Electrical Engineering, and the Dean of the School of Engineering
and Applied Science. It was during his tenure at the University of
Pennsylvania that the highly acclaimed “Management and Technology Program” was
created by combining the strengths of the School of Engineering and the
Wharton School of Management for a unique undergraduate degree.
At NSF, Dr. Bordogna continued with his innovative ideas and creative
leadership by leading the development of new programs focused on expanding
research horizons into connecting the frontier of science and engineering with
service to society, producing a world-class engineering and science workforce,
and making sure that every student from kindergarten up through the highest
level of education has math and science capabilities.
Among the many honors Dr. Bordogna has received are his Fellow Awards in the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American
Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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CHUN-YEN CHANG
President, National Chiao Tung University-Taiwan
Dr. Chun-Yen Chang is the President of National Chiao Tung
University in Taiwan. He received his BSEE degree from the National Chenk Kung
University (NCKU), and MS and Ph.D. degrees from the National Chiao Tung
University (NCTU). Prior to his current position, he served as a research
fellow at Bell Labs, a professor at NCKU, the dean of research, dean of
engineering and dean of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at NCTU.
He also was the founding Director of National Nano-Device Labs in Taiwan.
In addition to his presidency at NCTU, Dr. Chang holds several other positions
and affiliations including Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering, member of Academia Sinica of the Republic of China, National
Chair Professor, National Policy Advisor to the Office of the President of the
Republic of China, and Science and Technology Advisor to the Executive Yuan of
the Republic of China.
Dr. Chang started his research on semiconductors in 1960, and established the
first Semiconductor Research Center in the R.O.C. in 1964. Later, he also
established the National Nano-Device Research Laboratory for leading-edge
research on nano devices.
His research in semiconductor devices and key inventions have made significant
contributions to the field. Among his major inventions are the method of low
pressure MOCVD using triethyl Gallium, Zn incorporation, boron penetration and
nitridation in silicon dioxide, and modulation doped-based transistor.
Dr. Chang has received 26 patents in the U.S. and in Taiwan and has published
over 300 papers. He is the author of the book Made by Taiwan, promoting the
idea of innovation and creativity for the future of Taiwan as a world leader
in technology.
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MORRIS CHANG
Founding Chairman, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC)—Taiwan
Morris Chang has been the founding Chairman of
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) since 1987.
TSMC pioneered the “dedicated silicon foundry” industry and is the largest silicon
foundry in the world.
Prior to his career in Taiwan, Dr. Chang’s career was in the United States.
He was the President and Chief Operating Officer of General Instrument Corporation from
1984-1985, and prior to that, he was at Texas Instruments for 25 years (1958-1983),
where he was responsible for TI’s worldwide semiconductor business for six years.
Dr. Chang received his B. S. and M. S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. in 1952 and 1953, and his Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford in 1964. He received honorary doctorates from Chiao-Tung
University, Ching-Hua University, and Central University in Taiwan, and the Polytechnic
University in the U.S.
Dr. Chang was selected by Fortune Magazine as Asia’s Power 25 in 2003; by Time
Magazine and CNN as Top 25 of the Most Influential CEOs in 2001; by Investor
Relations Magazine as the Best IR Officer in 2001. He was the recipient of the 2005
Nikkei Asia Prize, the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Award in 2000 for exceptional
contributions to the microelectronics industry, and the “Exemplary Leadership Award”
of the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) in 1999. He was selected by Business Week
as one of the “Top 25 Managers of the year” and “Stars of Asia” in 1998; by
Common Wealth Magazine as one of “The Most Admired Entrepreneurs” since 1999, and by
BancAmerica Robertson Stephens as “One of The Most Significant Contributors in the 50
years of Semiconductor Industry” in 1998.
Dr. Chang is a member of MIT Corporation and the National Academy of Engineering (US);
he is on the advisory boards of NYSE, Stanford University, and University of California
at Berkeley.
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YOUNGRAK CHOI
Chairman, Korea Research Council of Public Science & Technology (KORP)-South Korea
Dr. Youngrak Choi is Chairman of the Korea
Research Council of Public Science & Technology (KORP). From 2002-2005 he was
the president of STEPI (Science & Technology Policy Institute) in South Korea.
He was the president of the Korean Society for Technology Management and Economics
(KOSTME) from 2002-2003, and from 1999-200 he was the Vice President of STEPI.
From 1997-1998 he was the head of the Dept. of Policy and Planning at the Korea
Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). Dr. Choi received a B.S. in Forestry
from Seoul National University; an M.A. in Public Administration from Seoul National
University; and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Roskilde University in Denmark.
He is the President of the Korean Society for Technology Management & Economics and a
member of the Presidential Advisory Council for Science & Technology.
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Richard
M. Cyert
Professor of Management and Economics
Carnegie Mellon University-USA
Richard M. Cyert became
Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) sixth president in 1972 and retired from
this presidency in June 1990. He then became president of the Carnegie-Bosch
Institute to study and improve international management.
Through his leadership, CMU became financially solvent, strengthened its
educational programs and significantly expanded its research and enhanced
its reputation as one of the nation's leading educational and research
institutions. After three years as President, he was described by the New
York Times as "the archetype of the new breed of leaders in American
universities...an economist and management theorist"
A director and consultant for numerous businesses, state and federal
governments, and nonprofit associations, he was head of a statewide group
selected to review Pennsylvania's tax laws and was honored frequently for
his leadership role in the economic revitalization of western Pennsylvania.
He joined the CMU faculty as an instructor of economics in 1948; rose
through the ranks to professor of economics and industrial administration;
and was appointed Dean of the Business School in 1962. Under his direction,
the "management game" for business education was developed and expanded. It
is now a model for other schools and used extensively throughout the USA,
Europe and Middle East. He was appointed the University's president after 10
years as Dean of CMU’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration.
Dr. Cyert received a B.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1943 before
joining the U.S. Navy during World War II. He did his graduate work in
economics at Columbia University following the War, but while he was there
he studied statistics with many of the best statisticians who were on the
faculty at the time, and thus became a specialist in statistics as well as
economics. When he came to the then Carnegie Institute of Technology in
1948, it was to teach statistics in accounting and auditing. Cyert pioneered
the application of statistical methods in this area and in addition to
several research articles on the topic, he co-authored books with R.M.
Trueblood (1957) and H.J. Davidson (1962) on the topic. He was elected as a
fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1973, largely for this
work.
Dr. Cyert was a consultant in economics and management science in Belgium,
Germany and Australia. He received honorary doctorates from the University
of Gothenburg, Sweden, the University of Leuven, Belgium, and from several
colleges in the USA.
In 1990 Dr. Cyert was elected and inducted into the World Level of the Hall
of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology. He was the author or
co-author of 12 books and wrote more than 100 articles for professional
journals and books. He died on October 7, 1998, at the age of 77.
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Gideon
de Wet
Professor Emeritus, University of Pretoria - South Africa
Dr Gideon de Wet’s formal
academic qualifications are the
degrees BSc B.Eng (Electron) and
PhD Eng., awarded by the
University Stellenbosch in South
Africa. Post-graduate studies
include the Diploma in Digital
Electronics, Philips International Institute for
Technological Studies, Eindhoven, Netherlands;
Advanced Course in Control Engineering, University of
Cambridge, UK; Advanced Executive Programme,
University of South Africa; MOT Summer School, MIT,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He has published a
number of professional papers and presented papers at
several international conferences.
He has been involved in the management of technology
for many years. He was the founder manager of the
Institute for Maritime Technology (IMT) in Simon’s
Town. As General Manager: Research at Armscor, he
played a significant part in the creation and operation of
the technology development and management system of
the defense community during the 1980s. He was the
first incumbent of the Chair for Engineering Management
at the University of Pretoria, where he taught
management of technology and entrepreneurship at postgraduate
level for more than 10 years. As a director of
LGI and Technotron Pty Ltd., he participated in the
establishment of a number of high-tech ventures. He
was also the first Director: Intellectual Capital of
DataFusion (Pty) Ltd. He has served on the boards of
directors of several high-tech companies, several times as
chairperson.
He started the Policy Studies Unit at CSIR, and
expanded his field of interest to the level of the national
innovation system and science and technology policy.
This included participation in activities in countries like
Chile, Mauritius and New Zealand and consultation for
the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Africa.
Although he is officially retired, he still undertakes
consulting work and teaching. He was invited to teach
at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch as
Visiting Erskine Fellow on two occasions, the most
recent being August to December 2006.
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CARLETON S. (CARLY) FIORINA
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Hewlett-Packard Company-USA
Carleton
S. (Carly) Fiorina is chairman and chief executive officer of
Hewlett-Packard Company. HP is a leading global provider of computing and
imaging solutions and services and is focused on making technology and its
benefits accessible to all.
Since joining HP in July 1999, Fiorina has led HP’s reinvention as a
company that makes the Internet work for businesses and consumers. Under
her leadership, HP has returned to its roots of innovation and
inventiveness and is focused on delivering the best total customer
experience.
Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent nearly 20 years at AT&T and Lucent
Technologies, where she held a number of senior leadership positions in
sales and marketing. As president of Lucent’s Global Service Provider
Business, she expanded the company’s international business and
spearheaded the planning and execution of its initial public offering and
subsequent spin-off from AT&T.
Fiorina holds a bachelor’s degree in medieval history and philosophy from
Stanford University; a master’s degree in business administration from the
Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at
College Park, Md.; and a master’s of science degree from MIT’s Sloan
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Andrew S. Grove
Chairman of the Board
INTEL CORPORATION-USA
Andrew S. Grove was named
Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation in May 1997. From 1987 to 1998 he
served as the company's CEO, and from 1979 to 1997 he served as President.
Prior to participating in the founding of Intel in 1968 with Robert Noyce
and Gordon Moore, he worked as the Assistant Director of Research and
Development for Fairchild Semiconductor.
Andrew S. Grove was born in Budapest,
Hungary in 1936. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1960 with
a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree and received his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Upon graduation, he joined the
Research and Development Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor and became
Assistant Director of Research and Development in 1967.
Dr. Grove has written over 40 technical
papers and holds several patents on semiconductor devices and technology.
For six years he taught a graduate course in semiconductor device physics at
the University of California, Berkeley. He currently is a lecturer at the
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, teaching a course entitled
"Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry."
Dr. Grove has received many honorary
academic degrees, including an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the
City College of New York (1985), an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree
from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1989) and an honorary Doctor of Laws
degree from Harvard University (2000).
His first book, Physics and Technology of
Semiconductor Devices (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1967), has been used at
many leading universities in the United States. His book High Output
Management (Random House, 1983 and Vintage, 1985) has been translated into
eleven languages, and has recently been updated and reissued by Vintage
Books. His book titled One-on-One With Andy Grove, was published by G.P.
Putnam's Sons in June, 1987 and Penguin in 1989. His book Only the Paranoid
Survive was published by Doubleday in 1996. His latest book, Swimming
Across, was published in November, 2001 by Time Warner Books. An author of
articles in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, he has
written a weekly column on management which was carried by several
newspapers, and a column on management for Working Woman magazine.
Dr. Grove has been elected a Fellow of the
IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the
recipient of many industry awards, including the IEEE Engineering Leadership
Recognition award (1987), and the AEA Medal of Achievement award (1993). In
1997 he received the "Technology Leader of the Year" award from Industry
Week, the "CEO of the Year" award from CEO magazine, and "Man of the Year"
award from Time magazine. In 1998 Dr. Grove was named "Distinguished
Executive of the Year" by the Academy of Management, and received the IEEE
2000 Medal of Honor award. In 2001, he was named as the recipient of the
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Strategic Management Society.
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BACHARUDDIN JUSUF HABIBIE
Former President, Indonesia; Founder and Chairman, The Habibie Center—Indonesia
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sc. h.c. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
was born in 1936 in Pare-pare (South Sulawesi) Indonesia. On March 11, 1998, the
People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) elected and installed B. J. Habibie as
the seventh Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia. On May 21, l998,
he took the oath of office as third President of The Republic of Indonesia.
Under his leadership, Indonesia succeeded not only in conducting the first free and fair
General Elections in 1999 but also succeeded in bringing about significant changes towards
democratizing and reforming Indonesia.
In 1955 B.J.Habibie studied at the Technische Hochscule, Aachen, Germany. In 1960 he earned his
Diplom-Ingenieur with cum laude at the Department of Aircraft Design and Construction,
and earned his Doctor Ingenieur with summa cum laude at the same institution
in 1965. He started his career in Germany by becoming the Head of Research and Development
of Structure Analysis in the Hamburger Flugzeugbau Gmbh, Hamburg, Germany (1965 - 1969);
Vice President and Technology Director MBB Gmbh, Hamburg and Munchen (1973 - 1978),
and Technology Senior Advisor to the MBB Board of Directors (1978).
In 1978 he was appointed Minister of State for Research and Technology and, concurrently,
head of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT).
He maintained this job for five terms of office during Development Cabinet, until 1998. He
was appointed as Chairman of the Indonesian Moslem Intellectuals Association (ICMI) in 1990.
He is president of the Islamic International Forum for Science, Technology and Human
Resources Development (IIFTIHAR) since 1997; founder and Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of The Habibie Center (THC) since 1999. In 2001, he became a member
of the Board of Founders of the Muslim World League (Rabithah ‘Alam Islami) and in 2000
he became a member of InterAction Council (IAC) since 2000. B.J Habibie has 17 National
and 16 International medals and decorations.
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GUNNAR HAMBREAUS
Member, Swedish Royal Academy of Science; Former President and Chairman, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences—Sweden
Dr.
Gunnar Hambreaus was born in 1919. He received his MSc. from Uppsala
University, M.Eng. S from Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and
Dr.Eng.S, hon. from Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg. He served
as secretary in the Swedish Technical Research Council from 1946 to 1953, as
editor in chief of the leading technical periodical in Sweden (Teknisk
Tidskrift) from 1953 to 1970, as the president of Swedish Technical Press AB
and finally as the president and chairman of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Engineering Sciences from 1971 to 1985. He worked for Swedish industry as a
member and in some cases chairman in the Board of Directors of some 20
leading Swedish companies e.g Volvo, Bofors, Pharmacia, Hasselblad and
others. Presently Dr. Hambreaus chairs the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa
Foundation and the Sweden-Algeria Mixed Commission as well as several Price
Juries. As a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science he takes part in
the election of Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economics. He is a
member of many learned societies and academies inside and outside Sweden. He
is proud to carry decorations from the Swedish King and his Parliament as
well as orders from Sweden, France, Germany, Japan, Spain and Australia.
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HAROLD A. LINSTONE
Editor-in-chief, Technological Forecasting and Social Change; University Professor Emeritus, Systems Science, Portland State University, USA
Dr. Harold A. Linstone earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from Columbia University and the University of Southern California, respectively. He now holds the rank of University Professor Emeritus of Systems Science at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. From 1970 to 1977 he served as director of its Systems Science Ph.D. Program. His 22 years of industrial experience include positions at Hughes Aircraft Company and Lockheed Corporation, where he was Associate Director of Corporate Planning—Systems Analysis. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Washington, and Kiel University. In 1993-94 he served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, and in 2003 he won the World Future Society’s Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Linstone is editor-in-chief of the professional journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, which he founded in 1969, and which is now in its 38th year. He is author or co-author of the books The Delphi Method (1975), Futures Research: New Directions (1976), Technological Substitution (1977), Multiple Perspectives for Decision Making (1984), The Unbounded Mind (1993), The Challenge of the 21st Century (1994), and Decision Making for Technology Executives (1999).
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MODESTO A. MAIDIQUE
President, Florida International University-USA
Modesto
A. Maidique is the 4th president of Florida International University (FIU),
a member of the State University System of Florida and the fastest growing
research university in the United States. The university, known for its
strong engineering and business programs, offers more than 200 degree
programs from the baccalaureate to the doctoral level and has been cited
seven times in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of “America's
Best Colleges.”
During his tenure at FIU, Dr. Maidique has presided over the establishment
of the Schools of Architecture and Law, initiated the football program,
and doubled enrollment to over 32,000 students today. In addition,
sponsored research has increased more than seven-fold to $58.8 million,
while endowment quintupled. In the year 2000, the university achieved the
highest research rank given by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, and was granted the third Phi Beta Kappa chapter for a public
university in Florida.
A graduate of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) and the
Harvard Business School (PMD) program, Dr. Maidique has taught at both of
his alma maters and at Stanford University. He is a world renowned
authority on the management of high technology enterprises. For more than
two decades -- for institutions including the White House, Harvard and IBM
-- Dr. Maidique has provided counsel on critical management and
educational issues impacting our nation.
Throughout his career in both the corporate and academic worlds, Dr.
Maidique has been involved with high technology firms in a variety of
capacities: as an executive in established and entrepreneurial high
technology firms; as a consultant, lecturer, and director for
multinational high technology giants; and as professor and lecturer at
leading universities in the U.S. and abroad.
In 1970, Dr. Maidique co-founded a semiconductor company now accounts for
most of the sales of Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a $1.2 billion
manufacturer of integrated circuits. He also served as president and CEO
of Genome Therapeutics, a genetic engineering company, and as a general
partner of Hambrecht & Quist, a venture capital firm. He has consulted and
lectured for major American firms including IBM, Rockwell International,
Honeywell, and Texas Instruments.
Dr. Maidique is the author of numerous articles in academic journals, a
contributing author to ten books, and a co-author of Strategic Management
of Technology and Innovation, a textbook now in its third edition, which
is used at more than 100 colleges and universities. An article he
co-authored, “The Art of HighTechnology Management,” is one of the best
selling articles published in the Sloan Management Review. He is also the
co-author of Energy Future, a New York Times best seller on energy policy.
In 1989, former President George H. W. Bush appointed Dr. Maidique to the
President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee. He also serves on the
boards of National Semiconductor and Carnival Corporation, is Vice
Chairman of the Miami Business Forum, and is past chairman of The Beacon
Council, Miami's economic development authority. In 2000, President-elect
George W. Bush appointed Dr. Maidique to the President’s Education
Advisory Committee.
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TSUNEO NAKAHARA
Adviser to CEO (past Vice Chairman) of Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.-Japan
Since joining Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., in 1953,
Dr. Tsuneo Nakahara has been a major force in the conception, design and manufacturing of optical
fiber and cables. Under his guidance, the company developed the vapor phase axial deposition optical
fiber manufacturing technology, which has become the standard in Japan and is one of the top three
fiber manufacturing processes worldwide. His team also designed extremely low-Ioss optical fiber
with pure silica as the core and fluorine in the clad. This technology was widely used for undersea
long-distance cables. He also has been a leader of important research into multi-count optical fiber,
leaky coaxial cable, milliwave and beam waveguide, and more. An executive advisor to the CEO of
Sumitomo Electric Industries. Ltd., Dr. Nakahara holds nearly 300 patents in the United States and
Japan combined, and has published over 100 papers. He has received numerous awards, including an
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Okabe Memorial Award from the Institute of Electronics and
Communications Engineers of Japan, and the Blue Ribbon Medal from the Emperor of Japan. Dr. Nakahara
won the 2002 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal “For pioneering work on the design and development of
manufacturing systems for optical fibers.” In recognition of his contribution to relations between
the United Kingdom and Japan, Dr Nakahara was appointed an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire, by her majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He has been the CEO of the Nakahara
Research Institute, Ltd. since 2006.
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YOSHIO NISHI
Director of Research of the Stanford Center for Integrated Systems; Director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility; and Research Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, USA
Dr. Yoshio Nishi is Director of Research of the Stanford Center for Integrated Systems, Director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility, and a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
He received his B.S. degree in metallurgy from Waseda University in 1962 and his Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1973. In 1962 he joined Toshiba Corporation, where he worked on silicon process research and development. From 1968 to 1969 he was a visiting Research Associate at the Stanford Electronics Laboratories, working on high-field transport in semiconductors and materials characterization of GaAs. In 1969 he returned to Toshiba and supervised the nonvolatile memory R&D activity, working on the development of the world's first MNOS nonvolatile static memories. In 1976 he was responsible for theoretical and experimental studies of short-channel MOSFETs in the MITI VLSI project, as well as management of the SOS technology group at Toshiba, developing the 16bitSOS processor for medical information processing. In 1979 he directed work on VLSI process technology R&D for both memory and logic VLSI, where his team developed the world’s first 1Mbit CMOS DRAM, 256kbit CMOS SRAM and 1M/4Mbit EEPROM, predecessor of Flash memory, which led Toshiba to become the leading manufacturer of DRAM and EEPROM in that era.
In 1986 Dr. Nishi joined HP Labs as Director of the Silicon Process Laboratory, where he led the team to build HP's first converged CMOS technology at 0.8 micron geometry used in HP RISC Processor, PA-RISC chip sets. In 1994 he established and became Director of the ULSI Research Laboratory. Dr. Nishi joined Texas Instruments in 1995 as Vice President and Director of Research and Development for the Semiconductor Group. In 1996, he was appointed Senior VP, responsible for R&D activities for digital signal processing solutions, semiconductor processes and devices, memory, as well as components and materials. His contributions throughout his tenure in industry cover not only leading-edge technology development, but also an R&D model and strategy for consecutive developments of technologies of multiple nodes with co-located R&D and manufacturing with two staggering teams and broad deployment of “precompetitive collaboration and benchmarking,” which is now commonly accepted world-wide.
In 2002 Dr. Nishi joined Stanford University as a faculty member in Electrical Engineering, and, by courtesy, in Material Science and Engineering. His research and teaching interest at Stanford covers nanoelectronic materials and devices such as metal gate/high k/high mobility channel MISFETs, resistance change nonvolatile memory, nanowires and nanotube-based devices with his Ph.D. students. He serves several companies as either board member or technical advisory board member, and he is also guest professor of several universities such as Tsinghua University and Peking University.
Professor Nishi has published over 200 papers in international technical journals and conferences and has co-authored 12 books. He has been awarded more than 50 patents in the U.S. and Japan. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and he is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics; Institute of Electronics, Communication Engineers of Japan; and the Electrochemical Society. He received the IECE Japan Award in 1972, and IR100 awards in 1982 and 1986 for nonvolatile memory productization. In 1995, he received the IEEE Jack A. Morton Award. He is also the 2002 Robert Noyce Medal recipient.
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MEHMET NIMET OZDAS
Dept. of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Istanbul Technical University-Turkey
Prof. Dr. Ozdas served as the Founding Director of
the Computer Centre in 1961; Founding Secretary General of the Turkish Scientific Council
(TUBITAK) from 1964-1966; Science Board Member of TUBITAK from 1968-1972; Founding Director
of Marmara Scientific and Industrial Research; President of the NATO Science Committee
from 1973-1979; Board Member of Von Karman Institute and steering Committee Member of
AGARD in 1973; Minister of State for Science and Technology from 1980-1983; and Professor
at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering,
since then. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Technical University,
in 1946, with a Diploma in Engineering, then obtained the Diploma of the Imperial College,
1950; and Ph.D. from London University in 1951. He conducted a project at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1953 and served as an MIT Research Fellow from 1955-1956;
then as a visiting Professor at Case Western Reserve University from 1953-1959; and became
a professor at Istanbul Technical University in 1961. Prof. Ozdas is a member of Sigma Xi;
President of the Turkish Organization for Automatic Control; and the author of several
articles and books in various languages.
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KWAN RIM
Chairman, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)-South Korea
Dr. Kwan Rim is the Chairman of Samsung
Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), the central research laboratory of
the Samsung Group. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1958
and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1960, both from
Northwestern University in the USA.
In 1960 he joined the Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics of the
University of Iowa and was an engineering faculty member there until 1995.
At the University of Iowa he was Chairman of the Department of Mechanics and
Hydraulics (1971-74), Associate Dean of Engineering (1974-79), Chairman of
the Division of Materials Engineering (1978-84), and Chairman of the
Department of Biomedical Engineering (1984-90). He is the founder of the
Biomedical Engineering Program at Iowa as well as the Iowa Institute of
Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Rim held the U.S. National Science Foundation’s SEED (Scientists and
Engineers for Economic Development) Professorship in 1976-77, served as the
President of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
from 1982 to 1984, and as a visiting professor in Japan in 1992. He has also
served on the boards of directors of numerous educational and research
institutes. He was the 1992 recipient of the Outstanding Biomedical
Engineering Educator Award from the American Society for Engineering
Education. He also served on the President’s Council on Science and
Technology of the Republic of Korea.
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EDWARD B. ROBERTS
David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology; Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Entrepreneurship Center-USA
A long-time expert on entrepreneurial endeavors,
Edward Roberts has literally written the book on high-tech business creation and
growth. His Entrepreneurs in High-Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond (Oxford
University Press, 1991) won the Association of American Publishers Award for
Outstanding Book in Business and Management. Roberts is Founder and Chair of the
MIT Entrepreneurship Center, and for over 30 years chaired the Sloan School’s
Management of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group. He co-founded
and co-chaired for nearly 20 years the mid-career MIT Management of Technology
(MOT) Program. Over the past 40 years, Dr. Roberts has become internationally known
for his research, teaching and active involvement in many aspects of technology
management, including technology strategy, corporate venturing, product innovation
management, and technology-based entrepreneurship. He served as co-director of the
MIT International Center for Research on the Management of Technology. When not
occupied with his MIT responsibilities, Roberts is actively involved as a co-founder,
board member and angel investor in many high-tech start-ups. Dr. Roberts co-founded
and was CEO of Pugh-Roberts Associates, an international management consulting firm
specializing in system dynamics, strategic planning and technology management, now a
division of PA Consulting Group. He co-founded and is a director of Medical Information
Technology, Inc., a leading producer of healthcare information systems, and also
co-founded and is a director of Sohu.com, Inc., a leading Chinese internet firm. In
addition, Roberts co-founded and was for 20 years a General Partner of the Zero Stage
Capital and First Stage Capital Equity Funds, a group of venture capital funds investing
in early-stage technology-based firms. He has been a co-founder and/or director of
numerous emerging technology companies, including at present Advanced Magnetics,
Pegasystems, PR Restaurants and Interactive Super Computers. Professor Roberts has
authored 160 articles and 11 books, the most recent being Innovation: Driving Product,
Process and Market Change (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2002). Roberts has four degrees from MIT
in electrical engineering (B.S. and M.S.), management (M.S.), and economics (Ph.D.).
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DONNA SHIRLEY
Assistant Dean of Engineering for Advanced Program Development,
University of Oklahoma
Former Manager, Mars Exploration Program-USA
Donna
Shirley is currently Assistant Dean of Engineering for Advanced Program
Development at the University of Oklahoma, where she is participating in
strategic planning and the development of new educational initiatives. She
is also the official Spokesperson for the Mars Millennium Project, an
international, K through 12 educational initiative sponsored by the White
House MillenNium Council, the Department of Education, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
and the J. Paul Getty Trust.
In addition to three honorary doctorates, Ms. Shirley has a BS (University
of Oklahoma) and MS (University of Southern California) in Aerospace
Engineering, and a BA in Journalism (University of Oklahoma). She has over
35 years of experience in the aerospace industry, including more than 25
years in management. Her honors include the NASA Exceptional Leadership
Medal; The American Society Of Mechanical Engineers Holley Award; and
membership in the American Academy of Achievement, the Women In Technology
International Hall Of Fame, and the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall Of
Fame. She retired in 1998 from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she
was manager of the Mars Exploration Program.
The Mars Exploration Program - which was begun in 1994 with the highly
successful Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Pathfinder missions - is sending
orbiters, landers and/or rovers to Mars in every opportunity (every 26
months) through at least 2005, despite the loss of two missions in 1999.
Prior to becoming manager of the program, Ms. Shirley managed the team
which designed and built "Sojourner Truth,” the Microrover which was
landed by the Mars Pathfinder project on the surface of Mars on July 4,
1997. Sojourner investigated the Martian surface for nearly three months -
more than ten times its expected lifetime. In her 32-year career at JPL
Ms. Shirley's positions included: Project Engineer for the Cassini mission
to Saturn, Manager of Exploration Initiative Studies, Manager of
Automation and Robotics, Manager of JPL's Space Station
Program, Manager of the Mission Design Section, and Project Engineer for
the Mariner 10 mission to Venus and Mercury in 1974.
Between 1990 and 93, as a part-time assignment, she established and led a
NASA-wide Systems Engineering Working Group which developed and documented
a standard systems engineering process for NASA Projects. As an outgrowth
of this, in the summer of 1991 she led another NASA-wide team on
Program/Project Management which developed recommendations subsequently
incorporated into the NASA Management Instruction for project management.
In addition to over 50 technical publications, she has written a book on
Managing Creativity and has developed a class on that subject which is now
offered at and through the University of Oklahoma in a variety of formats.
She continues to be a widely sought-after speaker on subjects including
Mars Exploration and Management, and has appeared in many national
television news programs and documentaries. Broadway Books published her
autobiography, titled Managing Martians, in 1998 and 1999.
Raised in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, Ms. Shirley now lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
She has one daughter, Laura, who is a graduate student in psychology.
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Jack Welch was born in
Salem, Massachusetts, in 1935. He graduated in 1957 from the University of
Massachusetts with a B.S. in chemical engineering. He later received M.S.
and Ph.D degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois.
Mr. Yun is the Vice Chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics
Co., Ltd. in Korea. He received his degree in Electrical Engineering from
Seoul National University and joined the Samsung Group in 1966, and
continually rose through the ranks of the company. He became Electronics Group
Vice President in 1988 and completed the MIT Sloan School Senior Executive
Program the same year. After serving as president and CEO of several business
groups and Samsung companies, he became the President and CEO of Samsung
Electronics Co. in 1996, and was promoted to his current position of CEO and
Vice Chairman in 1999.