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Chuck Thacker: Microsoft Research Legendary Pioneer, Chuck Thacker: Recent Turing Award Recipient ($250K prize, considered Nobel Prize of Computing)--shares his iconic legacy, current and future innovative research
Chuck Thacker was fortunate to enter computing at a time when the fundamental electronic technologies had matured to the point that many of the predictions of the field's pioneers could finally be achieved. Educated in Physics at the University of California at Berkeley, he joined the university's project Genie in 1968. This project had constructed one of the most successful early timesharing computers, the SDS 940, and was planning a follow-on system when he joined the...

Dr. Maggie Johnson: Dr. Maggie Johnson: Distinguished Stanford Researcher, Educator, Google Executive, and Top Thought Leader shares her insights into trends, benchmarking, education, and corporate training
Maggie Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University, and Director of Education and University Relations for Google. Her extensive past and present roles include: Assistant Chair, Director of Educational Affairs & Undergraduate Studies, Stanford Computer Science 2003-2006; Software Litigation / Expert Witness; Executive Vice President and Director of Research for Metricnet (1999-2004); Member, ACM Education Board and Council; Member, ACM...

Leon Strous: Key Initiatives with the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
Leon Strous was born in 1960 in the Netherlands, and he is still residing there today with his wife Pattry. Leon has bachelor equivalent degrees in business economics and business informatics, a postgraduate degree in EDP-Audit; he is qualified as a registered EDP-Auditor (RE) in the Dutch Association of Registered EDP-Auditors (NOREA) and he is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Leon started his career in metal and plastics processing and then went...

Dr. Mathai Joseph: Dr. Mathai Joseph: Renowned Executive, Scientist talks about trends, research, life lessons and experiences
Dr. Mathai Joseph: Internationally Renowned Executive, Researcher, Technology Advisor, Distinguished Computer Scientist shares his deep insights into computing, research, careers, trends, roles, life lessons and experiences, and much more. Education: B.Sc. (Physics, 1962), M.Sc. (Physics, 1964) at the University of Bombay; Post-Graduate Diploma in Electronics at Welsh College of Advanced Technology (1965), Cardiff; Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, U.K....

Rohit Talwar: Award-winning Global Top 10 Futurist, Strategic Thinker, Entrepreneur - shares his extensive insights into future trends and how to leverage them
Rohit Talwar is an award winning futurist speaker, entrepreneur, specialist advisor and strategic change agent and the founder of the research and consultancy organization Fast Future. He was profiled as one of the top ten global future thinkers by the UK's Independent newspaper. He spends his time traveling the world, researching the ideas that will shape the future and meeting the people and organizations behind them. Rohit has spoken to audiences of leaders around the...

John Naisbitt: Future is based on present
After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and after finishing his studies in at Utah, Cornell and Harvard, John Naisbitt worked as an executive in the coporate world, was called to be Assistant Secretary of Education under President Kennedy when he was 34, and worked as Special Assistant for President Johnson. He has witnessed America going throubled times and good times. His international bestseller Megatrends sold more than 9 million copies and was on the New York Times...

Maria Klawe: The path to success
Later in 2009, Klawe joined the board of directors of the Microsoft Corporation. She was born in Toronto, she studied at the University of Alberta, dropped out to travel the world, and returned to earn her B.Sc. in 1973 and in 1977 she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics. She started a second Ph.D., in computer science, at the University of Toronto, but was offered a faculty position there before completing the degree. She spent eight years in the industry, serving at IBM...

Andrew Fiddaman: Youths and the entrepreneurs are the essence of future
Andrew Fiddaman, he has been involved with YBI since its inception. He became one of the directors of the International Business Leaders Forum in 1996 following a long career with British Airways where he worked for over 30 years in a variety of senior management positions including 19 years overseas. Youth Business International is UK based non-government organization. It was found by His Royal Highness Prince of Wales Charles.

Srikantan Moorthy: The dream of India’s InfoTech industry
Srikantan Moorthy - known as Tan to friends and colleagues is a Vice President and Head of Education & Research (E&R) with Infosys. Tan has more than 23 years of experience in the Information Technology based Professional Services Industry. He spent 12 of those years working in the US during which time he gained hands-on experience in strategy formulation, operations management and talent development.

Barbara Liskov: The challenges of women in the scientific community
Barbara Liskov, 2008 ACM Turing Award Recipient, heads the Programming Methodology Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where she has conducted research and has been a professor since 1972. In 2008, she was named an Institute Professor, the highest honor awarded to an MIT faculty member.