Tuesday, 21 Mar 2006
Who's winning the globalization race? - George Strawn
George Strawn joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1991 and has served as Chief Information Officer since 2002, where he guides the agency in the development and design of innovative information technology. He also serves as co-chair of both the interagency Large Scale Networking Working Group and the international Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks. In his numerous roles at the NSF, he helped define and deploy the "new" (privatized) Internet architecture and led an initiative that created the first national high-performance network testbed. Before coming to the NSF, Strawn was a computer science faculty member at Iowa State University, where he chaired the Department of Computer Science from 1983 to 1986 and served as Director of the ISU Computation Center from 1986 to 1995. He has also held several positions in the computer industry and has worked as an information technology consultant in both private industry and government. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Wednesday, 22 Mar 2006
Entrepreneurial Considerations in a Global Economy - Competition, Culture, and Currency - Chris Clover
Chris Clover has been President/CEO of Mechdyne Corporation since founding the company in 1996, and has served as President/CEO of Fakespace Systems since Mechdyne Corporation acquired Fakespace in 2003. Before founding Mechdyne, Clover held positions with Engineering Animation, Inc., NASA, Fisher Controls International, Inc., and Lennox Industries. He earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. (Strategic Planning emphasis) from Iowa State University, where he received the Honeywell Foundation Engineering and Business fellowship and the Iowa State University Research Excellence Award. He is widely published in the areas of robotics, haptic feedback, control system design, vehicle simulation, vehicle handling and maneuvering, rollover, and tire mechanics, and has participated in high-profile litigation cases while performing accident reconstruction, simulation, and overall vehicle analysis. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Three Global Challenges to the Information Economy - James Bernard
James Bernard, Jr., is Vice President of Sales at CBS MarketWatch, where he licenses sales of data and news to organizations that include Fidelity, Ameritrade, American Express, the New York Times, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal Online. He joined CBS MarketWatch in 2000 when it was the start-up BigCharts, an innovator in displaying financial data over the Internet. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Thursday, 23 Mar 2006
The Precautionary Principle: Applying Ethical Environmental Decision Making in a World of Uncertainty - Carolyn Raffensperger
Carolyn Raffensperger, founding Executive Director Science and Environmental Health Network, will discuss applying the Precautionary Principle to a multitude of environmental concerns. This is the subject of the new book she co-edited Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy, published by MIT Press.