Two Talks on Science and Technology Policy

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dennis Allison <allison () stanford edu>
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:01:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subj: Two Talks on Science and Technology Policy


Dave,
For IP if you wish.  The talks are part of the usual EE380
EE/CSL Colloquium Series.  

    -dra

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              EE/COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
         NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
                   http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]

          TWO TALKS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY

Date:     October 20, 2004 4:15PM
Topic:    Science and Technology Policy I:  The Bush View 
Speaker:  E. Floyd Kvamme
          Partner Emeritus, Kleiner Perkin Caufield & Byers

Date:     October 27, 2004 4:15PM
Topic:    Science and Technology Policy II:  The Kerry View
Speaker:  Burton Richter
          Professor of Physical Sciences at Stanford Director Emeritus
          of SLAC

The live talks are open to the public (see the web site for maps and
other information).  In additon, the talks will be broadcast over
SITN, the Stanford Instructional Television Network, webcast live, and
archived for delayed viewing.  Access to the talks is free from either
http://ee380.stanford.edu or http://online.stanford.edu.

Synopsis:

The Science and Technology policies embraced by the winner of the upcoming
election will impact everyone. There are significant, substantive
differences between the Science and Technology policies championed by
the Bush administration and those that would be implemented by a Kerry
administration.  In an election campaign given to campaign rhetoric,
talking points, four-word sound bytes, and spin, many of the real issues
of particular interest to scientists and engineers (and others) have
gotten lost.

To explore the issues, we have invited two highly qualified speakers to
describe the Science and Technology policies we might expect following
the election: one from the Bush point of view, and the other from the
Kerry point of view.  The speakers are not surrogates for the candidates,
but they do have intimate personal knowledge of the policy issues and
can compare and contrast positions.
















The Science and Technology policies embraced by the winner of the upcoming
election will impact everyone.

There are significant, substantive differences between the Science and
Technology policies championed by the Bush administration and those that
would be implemented by a Kerry administration. In an election campaign
given to campaign rhetoric, talking points, four-word sound bytes, and
spin, many of the real issues of particular interest to scientists and
engineers (and others) have gotten lost.

To explore the issues, we have invited two highly qualified speakers to
describe the Science and Technology policies we might expect following
the election: one from the Bush point of view, and the other from the
Kerry point of view. The speakers are not surrogates for the candidates,
but they do have intimate personal knowledge of the policy issues and
can compare and contrast positions.

E. Floyd Kvamme, emeritus Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Buyers partner,
will speak on October 20, 2004. He has been an advisor to the Bush
Administration. His biography appears below.

Burton Richter, Professor of Physical Sciences at Stanford and director
emeritus of SLAC, will speak on October 27, 2004. He has been an advisor
to the Kerry campaign.

Both talks will be broadcast over SITN, the Stanford Instructional
Television Network, webcast live, and archived for delayed viewing. Access
to the talks is free from http://ee380.stanford.edu (click on the video
icon). The streaming video is in Windows Media Format and requires an
appropriate player. It can also be accessed from http://scpd.stanford.edu.

About the speaker:

(image) E. Floyd Kvamme

Since March 1984, Floyd Kvamme has been a Partner at Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers, a high technology venture capital firm.  In this
capacity, he was responsible for the development of high technology
companies from early start-up to the publicly traded phase. He is now
a Partner Emeritus at the firm.

Floyd Kvamme currently serves on the boards of Harmonic Inc., National
Semiconductor, Photon Dynamics, Power Integrations, as well as Gemfire
Corporation and Silicon Genesis.

Mr. Kvamme is Co-Chairman of President Bush's President's Council of
Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST).

Floyd Kvamme was one of five members of the team that began at National
Semiconductor in 1967, serving as its General Manager of Semiconductor
Operations and building it into a billion-dollar company. He served as
President of the National Advanced Systems subsidiary, which designed,
manufactured and marketed large computer systems.

In 1982 he became Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for
Apple Computer. While at Apple, his responsibilities included worldwide
sales, marketing, distribution and support.

He holds two degrees in Engineering; a BS in Electrical Engineering from
the University of California at Berkeley (1959) and an MSE specializing
in Semiconductor Electronics from Syracuse University (1962).

Contact information:

E. Floyd Kvamme


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