SPEAKER AND ADVISORY BOARD BIOGRAPHIES
NEXTGENS: IMPENDING NEW TECHNOLOGIES
OCTOBER 5-6, 1999
MR. JOHN PERRY BARLOW
VICE CHAIRMAN AND CO-FOUNDER
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
Mr. John Perry Barlow is Vice Chairman and Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
an organization that promotes freedom of expression in digital media. He is a writer and lecturer
on subjects relating to the virtualization of society. Mr. Barlow is a contributing editor of
numerous publications, including Communications of the ACM, Microtimes and Mondo 2000, as
well as a contributing writer for Wired. In addition, he meets frequently with government leaders
and business executives. He is recognized as an eloquent commentator on computer security,
virtual reality, digitized intellectual property, and the social and legal conditions arising in the
global network of connected digital devices. A past lyricist for the Grateful Dead, Mr. Barlow is
also a retired Wyoming cattle rancher.
MR. C. GORDON BELL
SENIOR RESEARCHER
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Mr. Gordon Bell is one of the worlds leading authorities on computer architecture and design,
having been pivotal in establishing cost-effective, powerful computers for engineering, science
and industry. He spent 17 years at Digital Equipment Corp., where he was Vice President of
Research and Development. Mr. Bell led the design and development of DEC's VAX distributed
computing environment and many other products. He has also been involved in advising, funding
and designing products at a score of other start-up companies. Among his many pursuits, Mr. Bell
is currently a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Corporation's San Francisco research lab, doing
work on scalable computing and telepresence. He established the computing directorate at the
National Science Foundation, where he co-authored the High Performance Computing and
Communications Initiative. Mr. Bell is a founder and overseer of The Computer Museum in
Boston.
MR. DANIEL BRYSON
FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
STARK DESIGN, INC.
MR. FRANK CASANOVA II
DIRECTOR, QUICKTIME PRODUCT MARKETING
APPLE COMPUTER, INC.
Frank Casanova is responsible for all QuickTime product marketing at
Apple. Frank started work at Apple in early 1988 and helped start Apple's
high-performance CPU group which was responsible for the Macintosh IIfx,
the Macintosh Quadram family and, eventually, the PowerPC program.
In 1993, Frank joined Apple's Advanced Technology Group and headed the
Advanced Systems Laboratory where he and 52 research scientists and
engineers worked on the problems around ubiquitous computing and
information access among other "Third Paradigm" technologies.
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After a two year stint as Vice President of Product Management and
Interface Design at MetaCreations, based in Santa Barbara California,
Frank returned to Apple in late 1998 to lead the Product Marketing
efforts in the QuickTime group.
Frank is an avid Heavy Metal guitarist and professional head banger who
is very happy to be back "home" at Apple.
PROFESSOR PETER COCHRANE
CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST
BT LABORATORIES
Professor Peter Cochrane was promoted to Chief Technologist for BT Laboratories in April,
1999, and launched the concept of the Communications Consultancy Group (C2G). This is to be a
new form of catalyst operation staffed with a range of senior people working inside BT and it's
customer base to realize new technologies, solutions, businesses and relationships. Professor
Cochrane previously created and headed advanced applications and technologies, the research
organization at BT Laboratories. He led work on the future of advanced media, computing,
communications, components, networks and systems. He has a 30-year career with BT and has
been a consultant to numerous international companies and organizations. Professor Cochrane's
work has spanned circuit, system and network design; programming, switching and transmission;
human interfaces; working environments; artificial intelligence; adaptive systems and control;
management system design; and work methods. He is a visiting professor at University College
London and Essex University
MR. JOHN ELLENBY
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
GEOVECTOR CORPORATION
In 1990 John, and his two sons, started the project that became the core of GeoVector’s business.
GeoVector develops and fields technology to complement the development of phones into simple
to use information appliances. From 1987 to 1990, John Ellenby was Chairman and President of
Agilis Corporation, a company he co-founded in 1987. Agilis pioneered wireless networking
using innovative low-cost spread spectrum digital radios and their application in a modular
computing system. John Ellenby founded GRiD Systems Corporation in late 1979. As Founder,
President and Chairman of GRiD, Mr. Ellenby conceived and directed the early stages of what
has now become the laptop industry. During his time at GRiD Mr. Ellenby led the development
of a series of laptop computers, communications servers and software systems. Mr. Ellenby left
GRiD in 1987 to found the Agilis Corporation. From 1974 to January 1980, Mr. Ellenby held a
number of positions at Xerox/PARC. During his time at Xerox Mr. Ellenby founded an integrated
design, engineering and manufacturing unit and was responsible, amongst other things, for
managing the development and manufacture of the Alto II and several high-volume laser printer
systems. From 1968 to 1974, Mr. Ellenby worked as Consulting Designer, Ferranti Limited in
the United Kingdom on the design of multi-processor computer systems for high reliability
process and communications control. John Ellenby has held a tenured position as Lecturer in the
Computer Science Department of Edinburgh University and a tenured position as Assistant
Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He graduated with first class
honors from University College, London in 1962 and held a State Studentship during three years
in the Research Division of the LSE. John Ellenby is the co-author of a number of issued and
pending US and international patents. He is master and owner of an ocean going sailboat fitted
out as a floating laboratory and has completed around 25,000 miles of blue water passages.
MR. DOUGLAS ENGELBART
DIRECTOR
BOOSTRAP INSTITUTE
Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute founder and Director, has an unparalleled 30-year track
record in predicting, designing, and implementing the future of organizational computing. From
his early vision of turning organizations into augmented knowledge workshops, he went on to
pioneer what is now known as collaborative hypermedia, knowledge management, community
networking, and organizational transformation. 1A
Well-known technological firsts include the mouse, display editing, windows, cross-file editing,
outline processing, hypermedia, and groupware. Integrated prototypes were in full operation
under the NLS system, as early as 1968. In the last decade of its continued evolution, thousands
of users have benefited from its unique team support capabilities. 1B
After 20 years directing his own lab at SRI, and 11 years as senior scientist, first at Tymshare,
and then at McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Engelbart founded the Bootstrap Institute, where he
is working closely with industry and government stakeholders to launch a collaborative
implementation of his work. 1C
Engelbart has received numerous awards for outstanding lifetime achievement and ingenuity. His
life's work, with his "big-picture" vision and persistent pioneering breakthroughs, has made a
significant impact on the past, present, and future of personal, interpersonal, and organizational
computing.
DR. MURRAY GELL-MANN
PROFESSOR CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENCE BOARD
SANTA FE INSTITUTE
Murray Gell-Mann is Professor and Co-Chairman of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute,
and author of the popular science book, The Quark and the Jaguar, Adventures in the Simple and
the Complex.
In 1969, Professor Gell-Mann received the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of
elementary particles. Professor Gell-Mann's "eightfold way" theory brought order to the chaos
created by the discovery of some 100 particles in the atom's nucleus. Then he found that all of
those particles, including the neutron and proton, are composed of fundamental building blocks
that he named "quarks." The quarks are permanently confined by forces coming from the
exchange of "gluons." He and others later constructed the quantum field theory of quarks and
gluons, called "quantum chromodynamics," which seems to account for all the nuclear paticles
and their strong interactions.
Besides being a Nobel laureate, Professor Gell-Mann has received the Ernest O. Lawrence
Memorial Award of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Franklin Medal of the Franklin
Institute, the Research Corporation Award, and the John J. Carty medal of the National Academy
of Sciences. He has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from many institutions, including
Yale University, the University of Chicago, the University of Turin, Italy, and Cambridge and
Oxford Universities, England. In 1988 he was listed on the United Nations Environmental
Program Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement (the Global 500). In 1994 he shared the
1989 Erice "Science For Peace" Prize.
Professor Gell-Mann is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus
at the California Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1955 until 1993. He is a director
of the J.D. and C.T. MacArthur Foundation, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Physical
Society, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, a former Citizen Regent of the Smithsonian, 1974-1988, and a former member of the
President's Science Advisory Committee, 1969-1972. He is currently a member of the President's
Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Although a theoretical physicist, Professor Gell-Mann's interests extend to many other subjects,
including natural history, historical linguistics, archaeology, history, depth psychology, and
creative thinking, all subjects connected with biological evolution, cultural evolution, and
learning and thinking. His recent research at the Santa Fe Institute has focused on complex
adaptive systems, which brings all these areas of study together. He is also concerned about
policy matters related to world environmental quality (including conservation of biological
diversity), restraint in population growth, sustainable economic development, and stability of the
world political system.
MR. MIKE HAWLEY
DREYFOOS PROFESSOR
MIT MEDIA LABORATORY
Dr. Michael Hawley is the Alex W. Dreyfoos Assistant Professor of Media Technology at the
MIT Media Lab. He is a principal investigator of Things That Think, a groundbreaking research
program that explores the limitless ways digital media will infuse everyday objects. He also
directs the newly created consortium "Toys of Tomorrow," which engages many of the world's
leading toy companies to invent wonderful new playthings. Hawley received undergraduate
degrees in music and computer science from Yale University and did his doctoral work under
Marvin Minsky at MIT. His research career has involved psychology and human-computer
interfaces (at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill), computer music (at IRCAM in
Paris, France) and pioneering work in digital cinema at Lucasfilm, Ltd (in San Rafael, CA),
where he was a scientist in the Computer Research Division. Hawley's work has involved
fundamental graphics interfaces to drive audio production, digital video editing and computer
graphics technology. Working with Steve Jobs, Hawley was a principal engineer at NeXT, where
he developed the world's first library of digital books, including digital editions of Shakespeare
and Merriam-Webster's dictionary. At MIT he produced A Day in the Life of Cyberspace in
1995 and developed a number of new wearable technologies for the 1997 WEARABLES event.
Hawley received the first Jack Kilby prize for innovation in science in 1990. Hawley is a fellow
and Trustee of Jonathan Edwards College at Yale and on the board of directors of the Rutgers
Jazz Institute. He is a one-time Duncan Yo-Yo champion, a former luger, and member of the
United States Bobsled Federation. Also an accomplished pianist, he has studied with Ward
Davenny, Claude Frank, David Deveau, and Earl Wild.
MR. RAY IDASZAK
CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER AND CO-FOUNDER
ALTERNATE REALITIES CORPORATION
DR. SUNDARESAN JAYARAMAN, PHD
PROFESSOR
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman is a Professor of Textile Engineering at the Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He and his research students have made significant contributions
in the following areas: (i) Enterprise Architecture and Modeling Methodologies for Information
Systems; (ii) Engineering Design of Intelligent Textile Structures; (iii) Design and Development
of Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) for textiles and apparel; and (iv) Multimedia Educational
Systems. Most recently, his group's research has resulted in the realization of the world's first
"Wearable Motherboard©. This contribution has been featured as one of the "21 Breakthroughs
that Could Change Your Life in the 21st Century" in a Special Issue of LIFE Magazine entitled
Medical Miracles for the Next Millennium, Fall 1998. He received his Ph.D. degree from North
Carolina State University, in 1984, and the M.Tech and B.Tech degrees from the University of
Madras, India, in 1978 and 1976, respectively. He was involved in the design and development of
TK!Solver, the first equation-solving program from Software Arts, Inc., Cambridge, MA. Dr.
Jayaraman worked as a Product Manager at Software Arts, Inc., and at Lotus Development
Corporation, Cambridge, MA, before joining Georgia Tech in fall 1985. Professor Jayaraman is a
recipient of the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award from NSF for his research in the
area of computer-aided manufacturing and enterprise architecture. In September 1994, he was
elected a Fellow of the Textile Institute, (UK). In April 1997, he received the Georgia
Outstanding Manufacturing Researcher of the Year Award from Georgians for Manufacturing.
His publications include a textbook on computer-aided problem solving published by McGrawHill in 1991. Dr. Jayaraman is Technical Editor, Information Technology, for America's Textiles
International, a leading textile trade publication.
MR. BILL JOY
CHIEF SCIENTIST AND CO-FOUNDER
SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
Bill Joy, Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, Inc., is a co-founder of the company and a member
of the Executive Committee. Bill received a B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Michigan in 1975, after which he attended graduate school at U.C. Berkeley where
he was the principal designer of Berkeley UNIX (BSD) and received a M.S. in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. The Berkeley version of UNIX became the standard in
education and research, garnering evelopment support from DARPA, and was notable for
introducing virtual memory and internetworking using TCP/IP to UNIX. BSD was widely
distributed in source form so that others could learn from it and improve it; this style of software
distribution has now led to the "open source" movement, of which BSD is now recognized to be
one of the earliest examples. For his work on Berkeley UNIX, Bill received the ACM Grace
Murray Hopper Award which is given for outstanding work in Computer Science done when the
recipient is under the age of thirty. In 1993, Joy was given the Lifetime Achievement Award of
the USENIX Association, "For profound intellectual achievement and unparalleled services to the
UNIX community." Since joining Sun from Berkeley in 1982, he has led Sun's technical
strategy, spearheading its open systems philosophy. He designed Sun's Network File System
(NFS), and was a co-designer of the SPARC icroprocessor Architecture. In 1991 he did the basic
pipeline design of UltraSparc-I and its multimedia processing features. This basic pipeline is the
one used in all of Sun's SPARC microprocessors shipping today. More recently, Bill has led
design investigations of architectures for UltraSparc V, driven the initial business and technical
strategy for Java, co-designed the picoJava and ultraJava processor architectures, co-authored the
specification for the Java Programming Language, and co-designed the lexical scoping and
reflection APIs for Java version 1.1. Bill's most recent work is on the Jini distributed computing
technology for networking computer devices using Java, and on the Sun Community Source
Licensing (SCSL) model, designed to allow companies to share their intellectual property in
source form, to facilitate cooperation with customers, partners, educators and researchers.
Further information on the SCSL is available at http://www.sun.com/jini. In 1997, Joy was
appointed by President Clinton as Co-Chairman of the Presidential Information Technology
Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee is providing guidance and advice on all areas of
high-performance computing, communications and information technologies to accelerate
development and adoption of information technologies that will be vital for American prosperity
in the twenty-first century. The report of the committee is available at http://www.hpcc.gov/ac.
Bill was appointed as Chief Scientist of Sun in 1998. His current research is into new uses of
distributed computing enabled using Java and Jini, new methods of human-computer interaction,
new microprocessor and system architectures, and the uses in computing of scientific advances in
areas such as complex adaptive systems, quantum computing, and the cognitive sciences. Bill
was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999. Bill has 11 issued patents, with 12
in progress.
DR. ALAN C. KAY
VICE PRESIDENT AND DISNEY FELLOW
WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Alan C. Kay is one of the founders of the Vanguard program and is a renowned visionary in
modern computer science. A foremost authority in the personal computer industry on making
systems easy to use and program, he is best known for developing the idea of personal
computing, the conception of the intimate laptop computer, and inventing the now ubiquitous
overlapping window interface that has made PCs easier to use. He also invented modern objectoriented programming. His current interests revolve around creating better learning environments
for children and adults, especially by understanding better ways to extend, capture, transmit and
think about ideas via computer media. Kay was a co-founder of Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC), Chief Scientist at Atari Inc., and a Fellow at Apple Computer.
DR. LEONARD KLEINROCK
CHAIRMAN
TTI/VANGUARD
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock is a world-renowned figure in computer networking and the founder of
Technology Transfer Institute (TTI). He is a father of the Internet, having been the first to
develop the underlying principles of packet switching. A professor of Computer Science at the
University of California at Los Angeles, Dr. Kleinrock has always worked at the frontier of new
technology, including current interests in nomadic computing and gigabit networks. Dr.
Kleinrock is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the L.M. Ericsson Prize, and
the Marconi International Fellowship Award. He has written six books and over 200 professional
papers and is a keenly sought after speaker to business and technical audiences on the future of
computing and communications.
DR. DOUGLAS LENAT
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
CYCORP, INC.
Dr. Douglas Lenat, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and expert systems, focuses on applying
large amounts of encoded knowledge to information management tasks. He heads Cycorp, Inc.,
an Austin-based corporation that is conducting groundbreaking research in an array of computer
software technologies. Cycorp has licensed the CYC knowledge management technology from
the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC) to develop for commercial
application. Dr. Lenat led the CYC project at MCC, where he was a Principal Scientist for 10
years. The project involved constructing a large, general knowledge base to enable the next
generation of computers to understand natural language, learn, and intelligently retrieve and
integrate online data from disparate sources. Dr. Lenat is a former professor of computer science
at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University. He remains a consulting professor at
Stanford.
DR. LEON LEDERMAN
RESIDENT SCHOLAR
ILLINOIS MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY
Leon Max Lederman was born in New York City, the second son of Russian-Jewish immigrants.
He studied chemistry at City College of New York, receiving his BS in 1943. Following three
years in the army during World War II, he studied physics at Columbia University, earning his
Master's in 1948 and his Ph.D. in 1951. Leon Lederman stayed on at Columbia following his
studies, remaining for nearly 30 years, as the Eugene Higgins Professor and, from 1961 until
1979, as director of Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, the Columbia physics department center for
experimental research in high-energy physics. With colleagues and students from Nevis he led an
intensive and wide-ranging series of experiments which have provided major advances in the
understanding of "weak interactions," one of the fundamental nuclear forces. In 1956, working
with a Columbia team at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, Lederman
discovered a new particle, the long-lived neutral K-meson, which had been predicted from theory.
Further research at Columbia demonstrated the non-conservation of parity during muon decay.
In the early 1960s, Lederman and his colleagues were preoccupied with neutrinos, ghostlike
particles that pass through everything in the universe. At the time, only the electron-neutrino was
known, and the scientists wondered if they could find more types of neutrinos. Columbia's AGS,
then the most powerful accelerator in the world, was capable of producing the beam needed to
perform the necessary experiments. In 1962, Dr. Lederman, with his colleagues Melvin Schwartz
and Jack Steinberger, succeeded in identifying the second such particle, the muon neutrino. The
experiment used a beam of the AGS's energetic protons to produce a shower of pi mesons, which
traveled 70 feet toward a 5,000-ton steel wall made of old battleship plates. On the way, they
decayed into muons and neutrinos, but only the latter particles could pass through the wall into a
neon-filled detector called a spark chamber. There, the impact of neutrinos on aluminum plates
produced muon spark trails that could be detected and photographed -- proving the existence of
muon neutrinos.
The experiment's use of the first-ever neutrino beam paved the way for scientists to use these
particles in research at the AGS and around the world, and eventually netted Lederman and his
partners a Nobel Prize in Physics. Since the team's work, neutrinos have been used as a way of
analyzing everything from the structure of the atomic nucleus to the energy level of an exploding
star, or supernova.
This early award-winning research in high-energy physics brought Dr. Lederman into national
science policy circles and in 1963 he proposed the idea that eventually became the Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
The design of ever more powerful accelerators, first at Brookhaven National Laboratory, enabled
Lederman and his team to find the first anti-matter particle in 1965. In 1977 Lederman led the
team at Fermilab that discovered the subatomic particle known as the bottom quark. The
following year he was named Director of the laboratory. By 1983, his administration had brought
Fermilab into a position of international prominence with the construction of the world's most
powerful superconducting accelerator, the Tevatron.
A convinced proponent of science education, Lederman opened Fermilab to countries not
previously associated with high energy physics. During his term as Director, Lederman also
emphasized the importance of math and science education as outreach to the neighboring
communities. He initiated the Saturday Morning Physics lectures and subsequently founded the
Friends of Fermilab.
The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Lederman and his old partners, Schwartz and
Steinberger for "transforming the ghostly neutrino into an active tool of research." In 1989, Dr.
Lederman stepped down as Director of Fermilab and assumed the title director emeritus. He then
served as Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, and pursued his
increasing interset in the problems of science education in American schools. He founded the
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, the first state-wide residence public school for gifted
children, and the Teacher's Academy of Mathematics and Science in Chicago.
Today, Dr. Lederman is Pritzker Professor of Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology . He
is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards
besides the Nobel, including the National Medal of Science (1965), the Elliot Cresson Medal of
the Franklin Institute (1976), and the Wolf Prize in Physics (1982). He is a past chairman and
president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1993 he was awarded
the Enrico Fermi Prize by President Clinton. He has served as founding member of the HighEnergy Physics Advisory Panel and the International Committee for Future Accelerators.
In 1994, researchers at Fermilab achieved an old goal of Dr. Lederman's, detecting the top quark,
the bottom quark's elusive companion, which had escaped observation for the previous 17 years.
Leon Lederman's publication list runs to 200 papers. He is co-author of the books, The God
Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1989, written with Dick Teresi)
and From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (1995, co-author David N. Schramm). In
these works, Lederman uses humor, metaphor, and storytelling to delve into the mysteries of
matter, discussing particle accelerators and the yet-to-be-discovered "God particle."
MR. JO LERNOUT
CO-CHAIRMAN, CO-FOUDNER
LERNOUT & HAUSPIE
Jo Lernout’s career in high technology began in 1979 at Wang Global Belgium, Belgium’s largest
network integration service company, as director of sales and marketing for Belgium. Lernout
managed Wang’s national commercial sales and marketing program, helping Wang become a
regional leader in telecommunications and enterprise network solutions in Belgium and
Luxembourg. However, in 1986, Lernout was forced to watch with hands tied as Wang failed to
interest the European market in a sophisticated voicemail and office integration system replete
with speech synthesis, a system at least ten years ahead of Europe’s rotary phone technology.
Wang’s phone system used speech synthesis to prompt users to enter numbers – but the users had
only rotary phones. Lernout realized that a speech recognition engine could enable rotary systems
to work with Wang’s. If users could speak the words “one” or “two” into their rotary phones they
wouldn’t need push buttons. Through his research he became familiar with several fertile centers
of speech recognition research in Belgium universities. Not long after, he would form a speech
recognition/telecommunications company of his own.
By 1986, Lernout was speaking with Pol Hauspie about going into business. Hauspie had seen
inexpensive voice recording chips manufactured in Japan and realized the price of voice
recognition technology would eventually make it practical. Lernout researched the field, found
that only IBM was a real player at the time, and recognized a niche. Voicemail systems were
booming, but nearly all of the companies developing them, like Wang Belgium, were licensing
the algorithm-based speech synthesis technology rather than making their own. The two partners
founded L&H in 1987, attracting the speech recognition researchers Lernout had earlier
discovered at Belgian universities. As Lernout & Hauspie’s applications for speech technology
multiplied, the two men gambled that eventually a market would grow up around them. It took
another eight years. That gave time for Lernout to develop expertise in sensing and securing
lucrative partnerships and acquisitions as he continued to grow the company.
In 1997, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, with revenues of $99.4 million, would acquire the
company that had supplied Wang’s speech synthesis technology when Jo Lernout was unable to
interest Belgians in buying it from Wang.
Primarily stationed at the company’s Belgian headquarters, Lernout serves as managing director
of the board at Lernout & Hauspie, and as director of the Flanders Language Valley (FLV) Fund.
The FLV is one component of a larger “Tech Farming” concept that he and Hauspie promote,
designed to nurture startup companies and long term research and development in speech and
language and related technologies.
DR. ROBERT W. LUCKY
CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENT
APPLIED RESEARCH
Telcordia Technologies Dr. Robert Lucky is an internationally recognized expert, author and
commentator on the state and future of data communications technology. At Telcordia
Technologies, formerly Bellcore, he oversees applied research in network technology,
architectures and services, and information sciences and services. Prior to joining Bellcore, Dr.
Lucky was executive director of the communications sciences research division at AT&T Bell
Laboratories. During his 31-year career at Bell Labs, he invented the "adaptive equalizer," a
revolutionary technique for correcting distortion in telephone signals that is used in all high-speed
data transmission today. Dr. Lucky wrote one of the most heavily cited textbooks on data
communications and the popular book Silicon Dreams, which analyzes ways humans and
computers deal with information.
MR. ED MUTH
DIRECTOR
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
As Director of IT Evangelism within the Business and Enterprise Division, Ed is a frequent
spokesperson for Microsoft with CIO’s, business partners and technologists. He works with some
of the largest IT organizations in the world as well as regularly meeting with analysts, press and
research boards. He contributes to Microsoft corporate strategy in high performance systems,
high availability, commercial systems software engineering and information security.
Ed joined Microsoft in 1996, and has managed a variety of programs including base product
marketing for Windows NT Server PR/AR teams.
His 30 years of experience includes government program management; systems and operations
planning and management at a large commercial bank; and, as Vice President of Digital
Equipment Corporation, product management, sales management and partner marketing. He is
graduate of Brown University and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
PROFESSOR NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE
DIRECTOR, MEDIA LABORATORY
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Professor Nicholas Negroponte is one of the world's leading authorities on how computers are
revolutionizing the delivery of information and entertainment services. He is a Founder and
Director of the MIT Media Laboratory, which focuses on the study and experimentation of future
forms of human communication, from entertainment to education. The Lab's research initiatives
include the television of tomorrow, the school of the future, information and entertainment
systems, intelligent agents, speech, holography and things that think. Professor Negroponte
consults to both government and industry, and travels extensively throughout the world as a
lecturer. He is the author of several books, most recently Being Digital, and is a senior columnist
for Wired.
DR. DAVID P. REED
DIGITALIST
Dr. David Reed focuses on designing the information space in which people and organizations
operate. Most recently a Senior Scientist at Interval Research Corporation, his research centers on
exploiting new information technologies that enable people to be more effective, including
mobile computing, group information sharing, pervasive networking, video media processing and
infrastructures for electronic commerce. Prior to joining Interval, Dr. Reed was Vice President
and Chief Scientist for Lotus Development Corporation's software business group. Before that he
was Vice President of R&D and Chief Scientist at Software Arts, and an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering at MIT.
DR. RICHARD J. SCHROTH
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
EXECUTIVE VIEWPOINTS, INC.
Dr. Richard Schroth is a leading strategist on the identification and application of emerging
technologies. He is continually researching and reviewing cutting-edge material that leads to new
business and management frontiers. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President of Index
Research and Advisory Services and one of the Founders of the CSC/Index Vanguard program.
With more than 20 years of experience as a leader of change, Dr. Schroth's visions and
frameworks are used in many of the worlds most progressive businesses and government
organizations. His primary interests are in developing technology champions, creating techniques
for converting technology visions into business-relevant opportunities and motivating senior
executives to explore new technological directions.
PROFESSOR CHRIS WINTER
VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT
CYBERLIFE TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Professor Chris Winter started as a Biochemist at Oxford University, before gaining a PhD in
Solid State Physics. He was then awarded one of the UK's most prestigious research grants by
the 1851 Commission. During this early period his research concentrated on extreme
miniaturisation and molecular computers. In 1985 he joined the BT Labs at Martlesham Heath to
work on optical computers and switching, and to develop further the concepts behind molecular
computers. In 1992 he joined the nascent BT team working on Artificial Life set up by Profesor
Peter Cochrane. This team developed software inspired by ant colonies, worked on evolving
large software systems and a wide variety of novel concepts. He later headed teams developing
intelligent agents for mobile services and network management before returning to head a new
Alife group. He was made a Visiting Industrial Professor of Cyberneticsat Reading University in
1997. In 1998 he left BT to become the Vice-President of Development at CyberLife, a
Cambridge based company eager to exploit Alife ideas in a wide range of markets. Apart from
his research and development, Chris has been involved in predicting the future of technology and
talking to a wide range of audiences about its potential impact. He has presented to school
children, the media, politicians as well as business leaders; and written articles for the travel
industry on how telecommunications will change their business. His book on the future of IT, coauthored by Ian Pearson of BT, is being published later this year. The most interesting moment
of his varied career to date is to be acknowledged in the back of Arthur C. Clarke's "3001" for a
prediction on the future of chip technology.