Stanford Science and Technology Policy II * 4:15PM, Wed Oct 27, 2004 in Gates B03

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: [CSL Colloq] Science and Technology Policy II * 4:15PM, Wed 
Oct 27, 2004 in Gates B03
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              COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
                 4:15PM, Wednesday, Oct 27, 2004
       NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
                   http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]

Topic:    Science and Technology Policy II
          The Kerry View

Speaker:  About the talk:

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, spoke on October 20, 2004. His talk is available
archived on the web. He has been an advisor to the Bush
Administration.

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. His biography appears
below.

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.

We have been collecting a list of resources[2] for these two
talks. Your additions to the list are welcome (details on the
resource page).

About the speaker:

(image) BURTON RICHTER
Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences, Stanford
University
Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Burton Richter was born in 1931 in New York. He received his B.S.
and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952
and 1956, respectively. He began as a post doc at Stanford
University in 1956, became a professor in 1967, and was Director
of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1984 through 1999.
His research has centered on experimental particle physics with
high-energy electrons and electron- positron colliding beams.

Richter received the Nobel Prize in Physics (1976) and the E. O.
Lawrence Medal of the Department of Energy (1976). He is a member
of the National Academy of Sciences and the American
Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and of The American Physical Society (President, 1994).
He was President of the International Union of Pure and Applied
Physics (1999-2002).

He has served on many advisory committees to governments,
laboratories and universities. He currently is a member of the
Department of Energy’s Secretary of Energy Advisory Board,
Laboratory Operations Board, Nuclear Energy Task Force, and
chairs the Transmutation Subcommittee of the Nuclear Energy
Research Advisory Committee. He is a member of the French
Commissaire a l‘Energie Atomique (CEA) Visiting Group. He is also
a member of the Jason Group, and chairs the National Research
Council’s Board on Physics and Astronomy.

He is interested in industry and its use of science and
technology and has been a member of the General Motors Science
Advisory Committee, chairman of the technology advisory board of
an artificial intelligence company, and has been a member of the
Board of Directors of Varian Associates and Varian Medical
Systems, and is a member of the Boards of Litel Instruments,
ASTRA, and of AREVA Enterprises, Inc.

Contact information:

Burton Richter


Embedded Links:
[ 1 ]    http://ee380.stanford.edu
[ 2 ]    
http://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/kvamme-richter-resources.html

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