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AeA's Bennett To Oversee U.S. Offices
by Ted Leventhal
Tim Bennett, previously the senior vice president for international issues at the technology association AeA, has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer. He is now in charge of the association's 19 U.S. offices, its non-dues-paying revenue programs, and its internal information technology operations.
Bennett has been working on trade issues for nearly 30 years and has been with AeA for five-and-a-half years. Before that, he worked in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for nine years and with the consulting wing of the Steptoe & Johnson law firm for seven years. Earlier, he worked for the consulting firms Hill and Knowlton and Fleishman-Hillard in New York.
Jennifer Guhl, AeA's former director of international trade policy, has decided not to move to IBM as previously reported but will go to California to start Wednesday as Cisco Systems' senior manager for policy and operations at the company's headquarters in San Jose.
"Much of my decision was personal," Guhl said. "My family is in California, and it was important to me on a long-term basis to head back to California."
Defense Names Computer Modernization Chief
The Defense Department has named Paul Tibbits as director of its office that is responsible for modernizing Defense's business computer systems. He will lead the department's coordinated effort to transition from its current system of mostly incompatible and inadequate business systems to an integrated network of systems based on common standards.
Tibbits previously led his own consulting firm and served as lead consultant to the presidential task force on health care for veterans. He is a medical doctor and served 26 years with the U.S. Navy, capping his career as the commanding officer of the U.S. Navy medical information management center and chief information officer for U.S. Navy medicine.
In other administration news, the Justice Department released the names of the members of its new intellectual property task force. Deputy Chief of Staff David Israelite will head the task force. Among others, the members will include: Daniel Bryant, assistant attorney general for legal policy; Jack Goldsmith, assistant attorney general for legal counsel; deputy solicitor general William Moschella; and R. Hewitt Pate, assistant attorney general for antitrust.
Science Board Announces Award Winners
The National Science Board, the policy body of the National Science Foundation (NSF), has named Mary Good, the winner of the 2004 Vannevar Bush Award "for her lifelong contributions to science, engineering and technology, and for leadership throughout her multi-faceted career."
A chemist by training, Good currently is the dean of the Donaghey College of Information Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. She first worked as a chemistry professor at Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans. She then went into the private sector, serving for 12 years in industry at UOP in Illinois and Allied Signal in New Jersey, where she rose to become Allied's senior vice president of technology.
Good later was named undersecretary to the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, where she worked to enhance the U.S. position in global markets and helped formulate new policies for innovation and productivity. She also was a member of the National Science Board during the Carter and Reagan administrations and chaired it from 1988 to 1991. And she is a former president of the American Chemical Society.
Good will receive the award at NSF's annual awards dinner ceremony in Washington on May 3. The award was established in 1980 to commemorate NSF's 30th anniversary. It is named for Vannevar Bush, a science adviser to several presidents.
Neurologist and author Oliver Sachs and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation also will be honored for their individual and organizational contributions toward increasing public understanding of science and engineering.
Sachs, a neurologist, is best known for his book "Awakenings," which was subsequently produced as a movie, and for his collection of case studies, "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat." The Sloan Foundation was nominated for its efforts to fund individual and organizational efforts to increase the public understanding of science and engineering issues.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International, meanwhile, chose California Democratic state Sen. Liz Figueroa a Brandeis Award for her efforts to defend privacy rights. At the same time they gave the database company Seisint an award for what the privacy groups called "the most invasive proposal" for its participation in the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program.
The "worst agency" award went to the Transportation Security Administration for its operation of the "no fly" lists of airline passengers, and the "greatest Corporate Invader" award went to Northwest Airlines for providing its passenger information to the federal government.
Techies Set To Speak At IT Summit In Greece
Issues of security, privacy and "cyber democracy" will dominate the next World Congress on Information Technology summit to be held in Athens, Greece, on May 19-21.
Top Internet and information technology executives will speak. They will include: Vinton Cerf, one of the Internet's pioneering scientists and currently senior vice president for technology strategy at MCI; Howard Charney, Cisco Systems senior vice president; Michel Fromont, president and CEO of NEC Computers International; Thomas Ganswindt, a group president with Siemens; Nicholas Negroponte, founding chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab; and Bill Vass, vice president for information technology strategy and architecture at Sun Microsystems.
New To The Technology Daily Crew
Technology Daily has several people announcements of its own. Drew Clark, the senior writer covering intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and other legal issues for the past several years, now will be responsible for the telecommunications and digital television beat.
Sarah Lai Stirland, who most recently covered federal technology policy as a freelance writer for the Seattle Times, recently assumed the legal beat. Stirland also has worked as a reporter in New York City.
And Winter Casey is the new associate editor of Tech Daily. Casey is a 2003 honors graduate of Simon's Rock College of Bard, where she received degrees in international and hemispheric affairs and politics, law and society. She has interned with USA Today's editorial desk, The Washington Times and the U.S. State Department's international visitors' program, and she has written book reviews for both USA Today and the Times.
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