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'Tis The Season For Transition
Dan Burton, Novell's vice president of government relations, is leaving the company to become senior vice president of government relations for Plano, TX-based Entrust Technologies, where he will handle privacy and security issues. "Chapter 2 of the Internet is e-commerce, and privacy and security are at the heart of it," Burton said in explaining his decision to leave Novell. "I felt it was an opportunity to take a leadership role on these issues." Before joining Novell in 1995, Burton served as president of the Council on Competitiveness. Entrust also named Vince Scarpulla as its senior vice president of North American sales. Scarpulla previously was the vice president and general manager of Amdahl's North American operations.
Solveig Singleton has joined the Competitive Enterprise Institute as a senior analyst, where she will address privacy and telecommunications issues. Solveig was the director of information studies at the Cato Institute. Her focus at CEI will be on financial privacy and the implications of proposed regulations for consumers and small businesses. She also will comment on topics such as wireless spectrum reform and auctions, the digital divide, universal service, open-access rules and Federal Communications Commission reform. Singleton holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Reed College in Portland, OR, and law degree from Cornell Law School.
Keith Enright, founder of the Web site PrivacyLaw.net, has been named the chief privacy officer for Lucira Technologies, a Boston-based company that addresses the theft of computer hardware and proprietary information. PrivacyLaw.net is a portal relating to privacy issues and legal developments affecting privacy. Before joining Lucira, Enright was the director of privacy programs at AllAdvantage.com. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy. He received his law degree from George Washington University.
Changes In The Government Ranks
Greg Mastel, a former staff member to Sen. Max Baucus, D-MT, and current director of the New America Foundation, will return to the Senate next year to become chief economist and director of international trade policy for the Senate Finance Committee. Baucus is set to become the ranking member of that panel after the retirement of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-NY, early next year. Mastel will replace Linda Menghetti, who is leaving the Finance Committee to become vice president at the Emergency Committee for American Trade.
Veronica Kayne, the former assistant director of the anti-competitive practices division at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, has become a partner at Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering in its Washington, DC, office. She becomes a member of the firm's antitrust and competition law practice, and will help the patent and e-commerce practices grow as well. Kayne became a staff attorney in the Office of Policy and Evaluation at the FTC in June 1996 and was promoted to deputy assistant director in the anti-competitive practices division in October 1997. She became assistant director of the division in May 1998. Kayne directed the FTC's non-merger investigations and litigation activities, including the development of its policy regarding business-to-business Internet exchanges, permissible uses of patents and copyrights, exclusive dealings and price discrimination.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt named Estee Levine, director of the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. Levine, currently the counsel to Levitt, succeeds Tracey Aronson, who was recently named Levitt's chief of staff. Levitt said, "Estee is an integral part of my management team. As counsel, she has played an important role in the various policy issues facing the commission these past seven months. I look forward to Estee's continued wise counsel as she begins this new critical role." As director of the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, Levine will serve as the principal counsel to Levitt and the SEC on legislative and intergovernmental matters. Among the agencies that fall under the SEC's jurisdiction is the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which has been considering some changes to accounting law that have upset venture capitalists in the high-tech industry.
Computer Pioneer Grinich Dies
A father of the computer revolution, Fairchild Semiconductor co-founder Victor Grinich, 75, died of prostate cancer Nov. 5, according to The Washington Post. Grinich began his career at the Stanford Research Institute, now SRI International, in the early 1950s. He went to work for Shockly Semiconductor in 1956. Grinich was dubbed one of the "traitorous eight" by William Shockly, co-inventor of the transistor, after he left Shockly with seven other scientists to create Fairchild. Fairchild later produced the first commercially viable integrated circuit, a forerunner to the modern computer chip. Fairchild has grown to a $786 billion company, with more than 8,000 employees. Andrew Grove, the chairman of Intel, is a Fairchild Semiconductor alumni. He joined the company in 1963 and left in July 1968 to co-found Intel.
Honoring The Innovators And Leaders
IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner and his company were given one of the United States' six National Medal of Technology awards for 2000 for 40 years of innovations in the technology of hard-disk drives and information-storage products, Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta said. Other medal winners include: Douglas Engelbart, for directing a laboratory at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s that resulted in the creating the foundations of personal computing; Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research and Development, for inventions that have advanced medical care, and for innovative leadership in increasing youths' interest in science and technology; and Donald Keck, Robert Maurer and Peter Schultz, who all collaborated while at Corning in the 1970s to invent low-loss optical fiber. "These exceptional scientists and engineers have transformed our world and enhanced our daily lives," President Clinton said in a statement.
The Business Software Alliance has bestowed its Cyber Champion honors to Jordan's King Abdullah II, Julio Semeghini, a representative of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies Dato' Pahamin, and to A. Rajab, the secretary general of Malaysia's Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. Abdullah was given the award for making intellectual-property protection a priority. Semeghini was honored for positioning Brazil to become a high-tech leader in Latin America. Rajab received his award for creating a special copyright task force in an effort to crackdown on software piracy.
Manoel Amorim, president of America Online's Brazilian unit, plans to leave his post to become chief executive of Telefonica's Telecomunicaciones de Sao Paulo, or Telesp, which provides fixed-line phone service in Brazil's wealthiest state of Sao Paulo. Amorim, who will replace Manuel Garcia, starts the new job in the next two months, Ferreira told business daily Gazeta Mercantil, the Associated Press reported.
Diversifying The Tech Workforce
In an effort to increase interest and proficiency in science, engineering and technology among elementary and high school girls, Microsoft will donate $100,000 to the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). "It's clear that an interest in science and math needs to be piqued at a very early age for girls through better exposure both in school and through other programs, such as fun engineering activities and mentorship from professional women," said SWE President Gail Mattson. "Microsoft's generous grant will help SWE expand our existing programs to achieve this and build new ones that can serve as models for educators and communities nationwide."
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