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Content Is King For Keating
by Randy Barrett
The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has hired Ed Keating to lead its content division. Keating was most recently a principal with Easton Consultants in Connecticut.
Keating will oversee SIIA's content working groups, which wrestle with "best practices" and standards related to technology for managing digital rights.
"Ed brings a great deal of industry knowledge to SIIA from his experience as both a consultant and corporate manager," SIIA President Ken Wasch said in a statement.
Asked why he joined the association, Keating said he has worked with the group since the early 1990s and liked the opportunity. "I'm somebody who has worked as corporate manager and I've seen some of [the] content issues," he said.
Fear of the Internet still drives business decisions at many publishing houses, Keating said. "There are some providers of content who really don't know what to do and are afraid Google will put them out of business, but the environment has changed. Lawyers and partners often start with Google before they go to other [private content] services."
For fun, Keating rides his bike and cooks. Homemade vegetable pizza is a favorite. "You grill the vegetables to get the water out and then you put [them] on the pizza," he said. "It really comes out great." Keating will have the chance to put his culinary skill to work on the job since he also will be responsible for SIIA's brown-bag lunch seminars.
Earlier in his career, Keating was a principal at Avantt Consulting, a vice president of marketing for EDGAR Online, and a former manager at Commerce Clearing House. He holds a master's of business administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor's degree from Hamilton College.
In other industry news, Gail Lawyer will leave her post as spokeswoman of the CompTel/ALTS telecommunications association at the end of the month to start her own public-relations consultancy. Lawyer said she has wanted to go solo for a while and now that her spouse has a full-time job, the transition will be easier.
Lawyer saw CompTel/ALTS, which represents smaller local telecom carriers, through several name changes and the departure of CEO Russell Frisby. Earlier in her career, Lawyer was a reporter and editor for various telecom business publications, including Xchange Magazine and Tele.com. She is a graduate of Marymount University.
Educational Tech Guru Moves to Commerce
John Bailey has joined the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning at the Commerce Department. He was formerly the director of educational technology at the Education Department.
Bailey took his new post without much fanfare but earned high marks at Education as a technologist first and a bureaucrat last. In his new post, Bailey will work on economic development, technology, intellectual property rights and telecom issues.
He is also tight with former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, having worked with him when Ridge was governor of Pennsylvania. Bailey worked on information technology initiatives at Pennsylvania schools while serving as director of educational technology for the state.
At the FCC, meanwhile, John Stanley has joined the office of FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy as acting legal adviser. Stanley's primary responsibilities will be wireline competition issues and some media topics. He was formerly in the FCC's office of the general counsel.
"He is an excellent lawyer and has developed great expertise on the key policy issues facing the commission," Abernathy said in a statement. "I am delighted that he has agreed to be detailed to my office for the remainder of my term."
Woman Recognized For Supercomputer Work
Dona Crawford should get an entourage or at least hire someone to hold an umbrella everywhere she goes. Why? She has been named Outstanding Woman of the Year by the Alameda County California Board of Supervisors and inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame.
Crawford is associate director of the computation directorate for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., where she led the construction of the world's fastest supercomputer, Blue Gene/L. The machine runs at 135 trillion operations per second.
Not only does it make balancing Crawford's checkbook a snap, the computer also will be used to ensure the safety of the nuclear stockpile and to set the stage for myriad scientific breakthroughs in chemistry, physics, engineering, medicine and materials science, according to the lab.
"These machines are the backbone of science and technology," Crawford said in a statement. "The simulations performed on these machines will aid scientific discovery in many fields for decades to come."
Before joining Livermore lab in 2001, Crawford spent 25 years working in the computer-science department of Sandia National Lab, which has facilities in Livermore and Albuquerque, N.M.
Hello, I'm Now Representing ...
The latest lobbying registrations include new listings for the technology and telecom sectors.
Laura Little of Denny Miller Associates has registered to lobby for AT&T on fiscal 2006 appropriations legislation. John Douglas will represent Global Maritek Systems on homeland security issues. And Robert Arensberg of the Vector Group has registered to lobby for PVX Solutions on the need to harden and protect computer systems.
Andrew Lundquist and Tim Kurth of Lundquist, Nethercutt & Grilles have been hired by Alaska Communications Systems to track federal telecom legislation. The firm also filed paperwork to represent Sprint in its merger with Nextel Communications, and for the U.S. Telecom Association on an expected rewrite of the 1996 Telecommunications Act and efforts to overhaul the universal service fund, which is aimed at providing Americans with access to affordable communications services.
James Burger of Dow Lohnes & Albertson, meanwhile, will be lobbying for TiVo at the FCC for approval of the company's TiVo guard technology.
Quote of the Week
"The movie 'Prey' got hung up in Hollywood, and I'm kind of thankful."
-- Floyd Kvamme, co-chairman of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy, speaking at a briefing on the U.S. nanotechnology industry about a movie on nanotechnology gone wrong.
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