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Top Stories:1. New sports bar by Climate PledgePSBJ article2. Inside the e-book industrySeattle Times article3. Google to make its largest acquisitionNY Times article4. Remitly co-founder steps downPSBJ articleAbout guest Craig Dawson - Co-founder & President, Retail LockboxCraig co-founded Retail Lockbox in 1994 with the help of his partner, Walt Townes. Prior to founding Retail Lockbox, Inc., Craig was a Senior Sales Executive with Unisys Corporation, an international provider of computer and system solutions. He also serves on numerous boards that include Boise Cascade, Washington Trust Bank, McKinstry, Pearson Packaging, and UW Consulting and Business Center.About host Rachel Horgan:Rachel is an independent event producer, emcee and entrepreneur. She worked for the Business Journal for 5 years as their Director of Events interviewing business leaders on stage before launching the weekly podcast. She earned her communication degree from the University of San Diego. Contact:Email: info@theweeklyseattle.comInstagram: @theweeklyseattleWebsite: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theweeklyseattle.com⁠⁠

Originally uploaded December 15th. Faces of Manufacturing is a new show to Michigan Business Network. Cindy Kangas, Executive Director, CAMC, Capital Area Manufacturing Council, Lansing, Michigan, co-hosts with Joy Wagner, HR Manager of Granger Waste Services, also Lansing. Cindy and Joy strive to share the corporate culture, personal stories, and unique personalities of those making a living in manufacturing today, in Michigan. With that in mind, this month they connected with Jerry Norris, who obtained a B.S. in Statistics from the University of Michigan, with a focus on Computer Science. He began his career with the Unisys Corporation as a Quality Engineer and ISO 9000 Lead Auditor in 1988. Throughout the years, he moved up through the ranks of the quality profession (i.e. Quality Manager, Director of Quality, and VP of Quality). In 1988 as a Quality Engineer and Lead Auditor, he began developing a software product to help manage compliance activities. Jerry developed software for ISO standards and related compliance systems for all industries, before he decided to start his own company, jadian incorporated in 1998. In 2014 jadian was sold. The next logical step was to start a new software company developing a member directory of compliance professionals. He served as the CEO of GAIA, LLC, which operate globally with customers in over 50 countries helping members connect based on expertise and vicinity. GAIA has evolved into a software company supporting start-ups with an emphasis on mapping. Jerry now serves as the CEO of the Fledge, a radically inclusive ideation and maker space, incubator and accelerator located in Lansing, MI. He also serves as the Chairman for the GAIA Solutions, and the Fledge Music Group. He spent 5 years as a “Gatekeeper” for the Business Acceleration Fund working with the Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) and has a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the community at large. Jerry's expertise includes software development, quality management, food safety management, automotive and aerospace related quality management, environmental protection and management, safety systems, regenerative economies, LEAN communities, blockchain, smart contracts and WEB3. He has worked in the following fields: telecommunications, automotive, furniture, food safety, environmental management, economic development, human rights, labor law, life sciences, advance manufacturing, plastics, consulting, organizational development, systems theory / thinking, sustainability, regenerative economies, crypto ecosystems and more. » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Subscribe to MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCqNX… » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/

Welcome to the "Secrets of #Fail," a new pod storm series hosted by Matt Brown. In this series of 2023, Matt dives deep into the world of failures and lessons learned along the way from high-net-worth individuals.  Join Matt as he dives into the world of failures and lessons.Series: Secret of #FailMatthew J. Desch has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a director of our company since September 2009 and previously served as Chief Executive Officer of our predecessor, Iridium Holdings LLC, from August 2006 to September 2009. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Desch served as Chief Executive Officer of Telcordia Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications software services provider now part of Ericsson. Previously, he spent 13 years at Nortel Networks Corporation, including as a President from 1996 to 2000. He also serves on the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and has served as a director of Unisys Corporation, a publicly traded global information technology company, since January 2019 and is a member of its Compensation Committee. Mr. Desch received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago.Get an interview on the Matt Brown Show: www.mattbrownshow.comSupport the show

In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick welcomes Karen Moore. Karen Moore is the chief compliance officer and privacy counsel for Unisys Corporation, a multinational information technology and services company. She held similar positions at Inchcape Shipping Services, Nasdaq, and Philip Morris International. She started her legal career with a clerkship at the U.S. Court of International Trade and as an associate and then local partner with the global law firm Baker & McKenzie. Currently working in the Washington, D.C., metro area, Professor Moore has also lived and worked in Moscow, Russia, and Lausanne, Switzerland. She is a member of the New York Bar and holds a BA from Middlebury College and a JD from Emory University.

Karen has spent decades providing expert human resource support to world-class organizations such as the Atlanta Falcons, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta United MLS Team, Unisys Corporation, and the Arthur M. Blank Foundation.She enjoys inspiring teams and helping leaders to build cultures that achieve mind-blowing results.Anxious to provide leaders with full spectrum human resources support, Karen leads her own consultancy called Beyond Culture, LLC. Karen resides in Dawsonville and enjoys time with her wonderful adult children and grandchildren.Beyond Culture, LLCBeyond Culture, LLC is a human resources consulting practice built on a belief in the power of a values-based, servant leadership model. Founder, Karen Walters, has 30 years of human resources leadership experience and enjoys imparting wisdom gained via her career within the sports and entertainment, non-profit, and IT industries.Karen coaches leaders, provides full-cycle human resources support, and facilitates leadership development, team effectiveness, and culture building initiatives. Karen is prepared to tackle a wide variety of strategic human resources projects that span the entire employee life cycle and include core values creation, organizational design, devising people strategies, and HR compliance audits.During her 19-year career under the leadership of Arthur Blank (co-founder of Home Depot), Karen was on a small team devoted to staffing and onboarding thousands of new Mercedes-Benz Stadium associates. This award-winning, core values-based initiative resulted in a highly engaged workforce inspired to positively impact the lives of stadium fans.www.karenwalters.com

In Episode 60, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Philip Murphy, CEO of Cornelis Networks.The team discuss AI, large language models, optimization problems, and the connections to Quantum Computing.Philip Murphy: As CEO of Cornelis Networks, Phil is responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of the company. Prior to co-founding Cornelis Networks, Phil served as a director at Intel Corporation, responsible for fabric platform planning and architecture, product positioning, and business development support. Prior to that role, Phil served as vice president of engineering and vice president of HPC technology within QLogic's Network Solutions Group, responsible for the design, development, and evangelizing of all high-performance computing products, as well as all storage area network switching products. Before joining QLogic, Phil was vice president of engineering at SilverStorm Technologies, which he co-founded in 2000 and which was acquired by QLogic in 2006. SilverStorm's core focus was on providing complete network solutions for high performance computing clusters. Prior to co-founding SilverStorm, Phil served as director of engineering at Unisys Corporation and was responsible for all I/O development across the company's diverse product lines.Phil holds a BS in Mathematics from St. Joseph's University and an MS in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Vishal Gupta is Senior Vice President, CIO and CTO for Lexmark International. He leads global information technology, software development, data science at Lexmark Ventures, and corporate strategy in a unified Connected Technology and Venturesteam. Prior to joining Lexmark, Gupta was global chief technology officer and SVP for Unisys Corporation, where he led a team of more than 1,500 engineers and drove innovation through emerging technologies including cloud and AI and played a pivotal role in its turnaround. he has also held executive leadership roles with Symantec Corporation and Cisco Systems.Vishal is a member of the Forbes Technology council, Wall Street Journal CIO council, and founding board member of WashingtonExec CTO council. He was recognized as Top100 CIO/CTOs by the National diversity council in 2021 and 2022.

Patti Titus is the Chief Privacy and Information Security Officer at Markel Corporation. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Black Kite and the Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She was recognized as a 'Woman of Influence' by the Executive Women's Forum in 2009 and the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2013.Patti has held numerous leadership positions in the cybersecurity industry, including at Freddie Mac, Symantec, Unisys Corporation and the Transportation Security Administration within the Department of Homeland Security.Patricia's LinkedinSANS Institute

The Fledge and the Impact of Covid 19 on community programming. Vicki talks with Jerry Norris is the CEO and Founder of the Fledge located in Lansing MI. Jerry obtained a B.S. in Statistics from the University of Michigan, with a focus on Computer Science. He began his career with the Unisys Corporation as a Quality Engineer and ISO 9000 Lead Auditor in 1988. Throughout the years, he moved up through the ranks of the quality profession (i.e. Quality Manager, Director of Quality, and VP of Quality). In 1988 as a Quality Engineer and Lead Auditor, he began developing a software product to help manage compliance activities. He served as the CEO of GAIA, LLC, which operated globally with customers in over 50 countries to help members connect based on expertise and vicinity. GAIA evolved into a software company supporting start-ups with an emphasis on mapping. Jerry now serves as the CEO of the Fledge, a radically inclusive ideation and maker space, incubator, and accelerator located in Lansing, MI. He also serves as the Chairman for the GAIA, Solutions, Power in Passion, and the Fledge Music Group. He also spent 5 years as a “Gatekeeper” for the Business Acceleration Fund working with the Lansing Economic Area Partnership. Jerry's expertise includes software development, quality management, food safety management, automotive and aerospace-related quality management, environmental protection and management, and safety systems. He also enjoys reading standards (e.g. ISO 17021, ISO 9001, GFSI) and following the industries that are moving from prescriptive systems (e.g. customer-based, GMPs) to more agile and adaptive management systems. Specialties: Quality Assurance, Statistics, Software Engineering, Sales, Food Safety, Compliance Management, Auditing, Inspections, International Business, Entrepreneurship, building Brands, start-up assistance, talent acquisition, funding. He has worked in the following fields: telecommunications, automotive, furniture, food safety, environmental management, economic development, human rights, labor law, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, plastics, consulting, organizational development, and more. Conversation summary: Vicki Hamilton-Allen chats with Executive Director, Jerry Norris about the increased need in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the Fledge has become a center point in the community to provide much-needed opportunities to marginalized communities. Norris is an innovator and creative thinker, tune in and let him inspire you!

SummaryRay Favors is a highly skilled business professional with over twenty-five years of management experience in information technology. Show NotesRay is a Georgia native but has called Tampa, Florida, home since graduating from the United Electronics Institute with Electronics Technology. During his career, Ray specialized in raising the bar for customer satisfaction and retention. Ray's extensive career spanned serving as a federal contractor for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and as a Regional Customer Service Manager for the Southeast Region for Unisys Corporation and General Dynamic Information Technology. He was also the recipient of numerous awards for his region's outstanding customer service provided to TSA. Before Ray's unofficial retirement, he founded Favors IT Consulting, Inc., to provide consulting services to companies seeking to secure contracts with TSA. Currently, Ray enjoys exercising outdoors in the Florida sunshine with his wife, spending time with his family, traveling to new locations, and discovering profound quotes from famous thinkers. Since his retirement, Ray has also become a minister and trusted spiritual advisor and started a daily motivational quote column entitled the “Chaplain's Corner.” Most importantly, he is a devoted husband to his wife of thirty-four years and father to three great kids. Ray's words to live by are “God – Love – Family – Education.”In this episode, we talk about:You will broaden your perspective.You will increase your self-confidence.You will not let external conditions or situations affect you.

In episode 02 of the Let's Connect! Podcast, Stuart Gavurin & Carson McDonald of OpSense join us to talk about what Real-Time really means in IoT, how real-time continuous monitoring works in the field, and what kind of outcomes users and implementers should expect. Stu Gavurin is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OpSense. His career includes serving in roles as an engineer, consultant and executive at technology-oriented consulting and outsourcing businesses with particular emphasis in business strategy, infrastructure technology outsourcing and systems integration. Currently, he is the CEO of both OpSense, and its parent company Mission Data. Prior to joining Mission Data in 2007, was a partner at Ernst & Young and a vice president with Unisys Corporation. At Ernst & Young for sixteen years, he served as a leader in the firm's distributed computing and infrastructure consulting practice before serving as the Chief Operating Officer of the North American IT consulting organization. Interested in connecting with Stu? Reach out to him on Linkedin or Twitter!Carson McDonald is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of OpSense. Previously he served as a Principal Engineer and Vice President of Service Innovation where he led the company's R&D efforts building competencies in IoT and mobile solutions. He is the chief architect of the company's mobile video platform product which was used to create award-winning products such as Bravo's Top Chef University offering that has had nearly 300,000 subscribers. Prior to OpSense, he worked as an engineer at Mission Data, IBM Global Systems, and Perot Systems.Interested in connecting with Carson? Reach out to him on Linkedin!About OpSense: OpSense is an IoT platform built for food safety and quality monitoring for retail and foodservice industries. OpSense allows businesses to be compliant with governmental regulations and helps prevent inventory loss, improve refrigeration efficiency, and improve employee productivity. The company takes a consultative approach, getting to know its customers and their business process. They work to make things simple, minimize the time spent touching the solution and providing support when needed. Follow OpSense on Twitter! 

IT service providers from across emerging Europe, especially smaller ones and those from less-known geographies, often struggle to present their value proposition to international buyers looking to outsource to the region. Buyers do not always know where to look, for a start, nor can they be sure that the provider who may have recently approached them by email offers a decent standard of service. Is finding a perfect match possible? In order to make the process simpler and smoother, Emerging Europe has partnered with Clutch, a US-based platform listing over 150,000 organisations, with more than 35,000 in-depth client reviews, specifically in the IT and business services sectors, to shine more light on service providers in the emerging Europe region. Together, we have launched a partner platform focused on the emerging Europe region. To discuss this new initiative, as well as much more, Andrew Wrobel speaks with Mike Beares, the founder of Clutch. Prior to Clutch, Mike led a team of solution managers in the consulting and systems integration unit of Unisys Corporation. Earlier in his career, he worked in management consulting advising both Fortune 500 companies and smaller start-ups.

Back by popular demand, one full hour with special guest Les Moore as he outlines Five Factors to Consider when starting a business. Les Moore, the company's founder started his professional career in 1985 with Deloitte & Touche, LLP, in the tax department where he serviced small to medium-sized businesses and individuals in the areas of tax planning, tax compliance and accounting services. He later joined Unisys Corporation as an international tax analyst before leaving to start his own accounting firm. He later sold his firm and relocated to Florida. Les later joined the Boca Raton firm of Grau & Company where he remained until 2004 when the company underwent and organizational division. Les continued his relationship with his former firm as a consultant for tax services. Les Moore with Moore & Associates: www.moorecpa.net (863)-294-7772 __________________ Host:  Ersula Odom Co-Host: Jada Williams A special thanks to our advertising sponsors.  Visit their websites to learn more about these organizations: Ann McNeill:  https://www.annmcneill.com/ JPerryandAssociates: www.jperryandassociates.com Pepsico/FritoLay:  https://www.pepsico.com/ NABWIC's Mission: NABWIC was founded to increase the national awareness of Black Women in the construction industry.  Our charge is to:      * Advocate for Black women-owned construction businesses for contract        opportunities.      * Create strategic environments that support educational,         entrepreneurial, professional and social network connections.      * Train the next generation of Black women and minorities in the         construction industry NABWIC.ORG

NABWIC TALKS  Five Factors to Consider When Starting a Business With Les Moore Part I  Hosts: ANN MCNEILL, Ersula Odom, and Jada Williams, JACKIE PERRY About our Guest Les Moore, the company's founder started his professional career in 1985 with Deloitte & Touche, LLP, in the tax department where he serviced small to medium-sized businesses and individuals in the areas of tax planning, tax compliance and accounting services. He later joined Unisys Corporation as an international tax analyst before leaving to start his own accounting firm. He later sold his firm and relocated to Florida. Les later joined the Boca Raton firm of Grau & Company where he remained until 2004 when the company underwent and organizational division. Les continued his relationship with his former firm as a consultant for tax services. Les holds a CPA license in Florida, a Master of Taxation degree and Master's certificate of Specialization in Entrepreneurship with Nova Southeastern University. As part of his commitment towards providing his clients with the most current tax law information, Les maintains a membership in both the American and Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants and The National Society of Tax Professionals. He also attends various seminars throughout the year in order to stay abreast of current tax and accounting developments. Moore & Associates www.moorecpa.net 863.294.7772 www.nabwic.org

The Microchip Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Todays episode is on the history of the microchip, or microprocessor. This was a hard episode, because it was the culmination of so many technologies. You don't know where to stop telling the story - and you find yourself writing a chronological story in reverse chronological order. But few advancements have impacted humanity the way the introduction of the microprocessor has. Given that most technological advances are a convergence of otherwise disparate technologies, we'll start the story of the microchip with the obvious choice: the light bulb. Thomas Edison first demonstrated the carbon filament light bulb in 1879. William Joseph Hammer, an inventor working with Edison, then noted that if he added another electrode to a heated filament bulb that it would glow around the positive pole in the vacuum of the bulb and blacken the wire and the bulb around the negative pole. 25 years later, John Ambrose Fleming demonstrated that if that extra electrode is made more positive than the filament the current flows through the vacuum and that the current could only flow from the filament to the electrode and not the other direction. This converted AC signals to DC and represented a boolean gate. In the 1904 Fleming was granted Great Britain's patent number 24850 for the vacuum tube, ushering in the era of electronics. Over the next few decades, researchers continued to work with these tubes. Eccles and Jordan invented the flip-flop circuit at London's City and Guilds Technical College in 1918, receiving a patent for what they called the Eccles-Jordan Trigger Circuit in 1920. Now, English mathematician George Boole back in the earlier part of the 1800s had developed Boolean algebra. Here he created a system where logical statements could be made in mathematical terms. Those could then be performed using math on the symbols. Only a 0 or a 1 could be used. It took awhile, John Vincent Atanasoff and grad student Clifford Berry harnessed the circuits in the Atanasoff-Berry computer in 1938 at Iowa State University and using Boolean algebra, successfully solved linear equations but never finished the device due to World War II, when a number of other technological advancements happened, including the development of the ENIAC by John Mauchly and J Presper Eckert from the University of Pennsylvania, funded by the US Army Ordinance Corps, starting in 1943. By the time it was taken out of operation, the ENIAC had 20,000 of these tubes. Each digit in an algorithm required 36 tubes. Ten digit numbers could be multiplied at 357 per second, showing the first true use of a computer. John Von Neumann was the first to actually use the ENIAC when they used one million punch cards to run the computations that helped propel the development of the hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The creators would leave the University and found the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Out of that later would come the Univac and the ancestor of todays Unisys Corporation. These early computers used vacuum tubes to replace gears that were in previous counting machines and represented the First Generation. But the tubes for the flip-flop circuits were expensive and had to be replaced way too often. The second generation of computers used transistors instead of vacuum tubes for logic circuits. The integrated circuit is basically a wire set into silicon or germanium that can be set to on or off based on the properties of the material. These replaced vacuum tubes in computers to provide the foundation of the boolean logic. You know, the zeros and ones that computers are famous for. As with most modern technologies the integrated circuit owes its origin to a number of different technologies that came before it was able to be useful in computers. This includes the three primary components of the circuit: the transistor, resistor, and capacitor. The silicon that chips are so famous for was actually discovered by Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1824. He heated potassium chips in a silica container and washed away the residue and viola - an element! The transistor is a semiconducting device that has three connections that amplify data. One is the source, which is connected to the negative terminal on a battery. The second is the drain, and is a positive terminal that, when touched to the gate (the third connection), the transistor allows electricity through. Transistors then acts as an on/off switch. The fact they can be on or off is the foundation for Boolean logic in modern computing. The resistor controls the flow of electricity and is used to control the levels and terminate lines. An integrated circuit is also built using silicon but you print the pattern into the circuit using lithography rather than painstakingly putting little wires where they need to go like radio operators did with the Cats Whisker all those years ago. The idea of the transistor goes back to the mid-30s when William Shockley took the idea of a cat's wicker, or fine wire touching a galena crystal. The radio operator moved the wire to different parts of the crystal to pick up different radio signals. Solid state physics was born when Shockley, who first studied at Cal Tech and then got his PhD in Physics, started working on a way to make these useable in every day electronics. After a decade in the trenches, Bell gave him John Bardeen and Walter Brattain who successfully finished the invention in 1947. Shockley went on to design a new and better transistor, known as a bipolar transistor and helped move us from vacuum tubes, which were bulky and needed a lot of power, to first gernanium, which they used initially and then to silicon. Shockley got a Nobel Prize in physics for his work and was able to recruit a team of extremely talented young PhDs to help work on new semiconductor devices. He became increasingly frustrated with Bell and took a leave of absence. Shockley moved back to his hometown of Palo Alto, California and started a new company called the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. He had some ideas that were way before his time and wasn't exactly easy to work with. He pushed the chip industry forward but in the process spawned a mass exodus of employees that went to Fairchild in 1957. He called them the “Traitorous 8” to create what would be Fairchild Semiconductors. The alumni of Shockley Labs ended up spawning 65 companies over the next 20 years that laid foundation of the microchip industry to this day, including Intel. . If he were easier to work with, we might not have had the innovation that we've seen if not for Shockley's abbrasiveness! All of these silicon chip makers being in a small area of California then led to that area getting the Silicon Valley moniker, given all the chip makers located there. At this point, people were starting to experiment with computers using transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The University of Manchester created the Transistor Computer in 1953. The first fully transistorized computer came in 1955 with the Harwell CADET, MIT started work on the TX-0 in 1956, and the THOR guidance computer for ICBMs came in 1957. But the IBM 608 was the first commercial all-transistor solid-state computer. The RCA 501, Philco Transac S-1000, and IBM 7070 took us through the age of transistors which continued to get smaller and more compact. At this point, we were really just replacing tubes with transistors. But the integrated circuit would bring us into the third generation of computers. The integrated circuit is an electronic device that has all of the functional blocks put on the same piece of silicon. So the transistor, or multiple transistors, is printed into one block. Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments patented the first miniaturized electronic circuit in 1959, which used germanium and external wires and was really more of a hybrid integrated Circuit. Later in 1959, Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor invented the first truly monolithic integrated circuit, which he received a patent for. While doing so independently, they are considered the creators of the integrated circuit. The third generation of computers was from 1964 to 1971, and saw the introduction of metal-oxide-silicon and printing circuits with photolithography. In 1965 Gordon Moore, also of Fairchild at the time, observed that the number of transistors, resistors, diodes, capacitors, and other components that could be shoved into a chip was doubling about every year and published an article with this observation in Electronics Magazine, forecasting what's now known as Moore's Law. The integrated circuit gave us the DEC PDP and later the IBM S/360 series of computers, making computers smaller, and brought us into a world where we could write code in COBOL and FORTRAN. A microprocessor is one type of integrated circuit. They're also used in audio amplifiers, analog integrated circuits, clocks, interfaces, etc. But in the early 60s, the Minuteman missal program and the US Navy contracts were practically the only ones using these chips, at this point numbering in the hundreds, bringing us into the world of the MSI, or medium-scale integration chip. Moore and Noyce left Fairchild and founded NM Electronics in 1968, later renaming the company to Intel, short for Integrated Electronics. Federico Faggin came over in 1970 to lead the MCS-4 family of chips. These along with other chips that were economical to produce started to result in chips finding their way into various consumer products. In fact, the MCS-4 chips, which split RAM , ROM, CPU, and I/O, were designed for the Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation and Intel bought the rights back, announcing the chip in Electronic News with an article called “Announcing A New Era In Integrated Electronics.” Together, they built the Intel 4004, the first microprocessor that fit on a single chip. They buried the contacts in multiple layers and introduced 2-phase clocks. Silicon oxide was used to layer integrated circuits onto a single chip. Here, the microprocessor, or CPU, splits the arithmetic and logic unit, or ALU, the bus, the clock, the control unit, and registers up so each can do what they're good at, but live on the same chip. The 1st generation of the microprocessor was from 1971, when these 4-bit chips were mostly used in guidance systems. This boosted the speed by five times. The forming of Intel and the introduction of the 4004 chip can be seen as one of the primary events that propelled us into the evolution of the microprocessor and the fourth generation of computers, which lasted from 1972 to 2010. The Intel 4004 had 2,300 transistors. The Intel 4040 came in 1974, giving us 3,000 transistors. It was still a 4-bit data bus but jumped to 12-bit ROM. The architecture was also from Faggin but the design was carried out by Tom Innes. We were firmly in the era of LSI, or Large Scale Integration chips. These chips were also used in the Busicom calculator, and even in the first pinball game controlled by a microprocessor. But getting a true computer to fit on a chip, or a modern CPU, remained an elusive goal. Texas Instruments ran an ad in Electronics with a caption that the 8008 was a “CPU on a Chip” and attempted to patent the chip, but couldn't make it work. Faggin went to Intel and they did actually make it work, giving us the first 8-bit microprocessor. It was then redesigned in 1972 as the 8080. A year later, the chip was fabricated and then put on the market in 1972. Intel made the R&D money back in 5 months and sparked the idea for Ed Roberts to build The Altair 8800. Motorola and Zilog brought competition in the 6900 and Z-80, which was used in the Tandy TRS-80, one of the first mass produced computers. N-MOSs transistors on chips allowed for new and faster paths and MOS Technology soon joined the fray with the 6501 and 6502 chips in 1975. The 6502 ended up being the chip used in the Apple I, Apple II, NES, Atari 2600, BBC Micro, Commodore PET and Commodore VIC-20. The MOS 6510 variant was then used in the Commodore 64. The 8086 was released in 1978 with 3,000 transistors and marked the transition to Intel's x86 line of chips, setting what would become the standard in future chips. But the IBM wasn't the only place you could find chips. The Motorola 68000 was used in the Sun-1 from Sun Microsystems, the HP 9000, the DEC VAXstation, the Comodore Amiga, the Apple Lisa, the Sinclair QL, the Sega Genesis, and the Mac. The chips were also used in the first HP LaserJet and the Apple LaserWriter and used in a number of embedded systems for years to come. As we rounded the corner into the 80s it was clear that the computer revolution was upon us. A number of computer companies were looking to do more than what they could do with he existing Intel, MOS, and Motorola chips. And ARPA was pushing the boundaries yet again. Carver Mead of Caltech and Lynn Conway of Xerox PARC saw the density of transistors in chips starting to plateau. So with DARPA funding they went out looking for ways to push the world into the VLSI era, or Very Large Scale Integration. The VLSI project resulted in the concept of fabless design houses, such as Broadcom, 32-bit graphics, BSD Unix, and RISC processors, or Reduced Instruction Set Computer Processor. Out of the RISC work done at UC Berkely came a number of new options for chips as well. One of these designers, Acorn Computers evaluated a number of chips and decided to develop their own, using VLSI Technology, a company founded by more Fairchild Semiconductor alumni) to manufacture the chip in their foundry. Sophie Wilson, then Roger, worked on an instruction set for the RISC. Out of this came the Acorn RISC Machine, or ARM chip. Over 100 billion ARM processors have been produced, well over 10 for every human on the planet. You know that fancy new A13 that Apple announced. It uses a licensed ARM core. Another chip that came out of the RISC family was the SUN Sparc. Sun being short for Stanford University Network, co-founder Andy Bchtolsheim, they were close to the action and released the SPARC in 1986. I still have a SPARC 20 I use for this and that at home. Not that SPARC has gone anywhere. They're just made by Oracle now. The Intel 80386 chip was a 32 bit microprocessor released in 1985. The first chip had 275,000 transistors, taking plenty of pages from the lessons learned in the VLSI projects. Compaq built a machine on it, but really the IBM PC/AT made it an accepted standard, although this was the beginning of the end of IBMs hold on the burgeoning computer industry. And AMD, yet another company founded by Fairchild defectors, created the Am386 in 1991, ending Intel's nearly 5 year monopoly on the PC clone industry and ending an era where AMD was a second source of Intel parts but instead was competing with Intel directly. We can thank AMD's aggressive competition with Intel for helping to keep the CPU industry going along Moore's law! At this point transistors were only 1.5 microns in size. Much, much smaller than a cats whisker. The Intel 80486 came in 1989 and again tracking against Moore's Law we hit the first 1 million transistor chip. Remember how Compaq helped end IBM's hold on the PC market? When the Intel 486 came along they went with AMD. This chip was also important because we got L1 caches, meaning that chips didn't need to send instructions to other parts of the motherboard but could do caching internally. From then on, the L1 and later L2 caches would be listed on all chips. We'd finally broken 100MHz! Motorola released the 68050 in 1990, hitting 1.2 Million transistors, and giving Apple the chip that would define the Quadra and also that L1 cache. The DEC Alpha came along in 1992, also a RISC chip, but really kicking off the 64-bit era. While the most technically advanced chip of the day, it never took off and after DEC was acquired by Compaq and Compaq by HP, the IP for the Alpha was sold to Intel in 2001, with the PC industry having just decided they could have all their money. But back to the 90s, ‘cause life was better back when grunge was new. At this point, hobbyists knew what the CPU was but most normal people didn't. The concept that there was a whole Univac on one of these never occurred to most people. But then came the Pentium. Turns out that giving a chip a name and some marketing dollars not only made Intel a household name but solidified their hold on the chip market for decades to come. While the Intel Inside campaign started in 1991, after the Pentium was released in 1993, the case of most computers would have a sticker that said Intel Inside. Intel really one upped everyone. The first Pentium, the P5 or 586 or 80501 had 3.1 million transistors that were 16.7 micrometers. Computers kept getting smaller and cheaper and faster. Apple answered by moving to the PowerPC chip from IBM, which owed much of its design to the RISC. Exactly 10 years after the famous 1984 Super Bowl Commercial, Apple was using a CPU from IBM. Another advance came in 1996 when IBM developed the Power4 chip and gave the world multi-core processors, or a CPU that had multiple CPU cores inside the CPU. Once parallel processing caught up to being able to have processes that consumed the resources on all those cores, we saw Intel's Pentium D, and AMD's Athlon 64 x2 released in May 2005 bringing multi-core architecture to the consumer. This led to even more parallel processing and an explosion in the number of cores helped us continue on with Moore's Law. There are now custom chips that reach into the thousands of cores today, although most laptops have maybe 4 cores in them. Setting multi-core architectures aside for a moment, back to Y2K when Justin Timberlake was still a part of NSYNC. Then came the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Celeron, Pentium III, Xeon, Pentium M, Xeon LV, Pentium 4. On the IBM/Apple side, we got the G3 with 6.3 million transistors, G4 with 10.5 million transistors, and the G5 with 58 million transistors and 1,131 feet of copper interconnects, running at 3GHz in 2002 - so much copper that NSYNC broke up that year. The Pentium 4 that year ran at 2.4 GHz and sported 50 million transistors. This is about 1 transistor per dollar made off Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002. I guess Attack of the Clones was better because it grossed over 300 Million that year. Remember how we broke the million transistor mark in 1989? In 2005, Intel started testing Montecito with certain customers. The Titanium-2 64-bit CPU with 1.72 billion transistors, shattering the billion mark and hitting a billion two years earlier than projected. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Apple would be moving to the Intel processor that year. NeXTSTEP had been happy as a clam on Intel, SPARC or HP RISC so given the rapid advancements from Intel, this seemed like a safe bet and allowed Apple to tell directors in IT departments “see, we play nice now.” And the innovations kept flowing for the next decade and a half. We packed more transistors in, more cache, cleaner clean rooms, faster bus speeds, with Intel owning the computer CPU market and AMD slowly growing from the ashes of Acorn computer into the power-house that AMD cores are today, when embedded in other chips designs. I'd say not much interesting has happened, but it's ALL interesting, except the numbers just sound stupid they're so big. And we had more advances along the way of course, but it started to feel like we were just miniaturizing more and more, allowing us to do much more advanced computing in general. The fifth generation of computing is all about technologies that we today consider advanced. Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Computing, Very High Level Computer Languages, the migration away from desktops to laptops and even smaller devices like smartphones. ULSI, or Ultra Large Scale Integration chips not only tells us that chip designers really have no creativity outside of chip architecture, but also means millions up to tens of billions of transistors on silicon. At the time of this recording, the AMD Epic Rome is the single chip package with the most transistors, at 32 billion. Silicon is the seventh most abundant element in the universe and the second most in the crust of the planet earth. Given that there's more chips than people by a huge percentage, we're lucky we don't have to worry about running out any time soon! We skipped RAM in this episode. But it kinda' deserves its own, since RAM is still following Moore's Law, while the CPU is kinda' lagging again. Maybe it's time for our friends at DARPA to get the kids from Berkley working at VERYUltra Large Scale chips or VULSIs! Or they could sign on to sponsor this podcast! And now I'm going to go take a VERYUltra Large Scale nap. Gentle listeners I hope you can do that as well. Unless you're driving while listening to this. Don't nap while driving. But do have a lovely day. Thank you for listening to yet another episode of the History of Computing Podcast. We're so lucky to have you!

Patricia Titus is the Chief Privacy and Information Security Officer at Markel Corporation. Ms. Titus joined Markel Corporation in January 2016 as the Chief Information Security Officer and added Chief Privacy Officer in January 2017 with responsibility for ensuring the security and privacy of Markel’s information assets and the protection of customer information. Previously, Ms. Titus was the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Freddie Mac, Symantec, Unisys Corporation and the Transportation Security Administration within the Department of Homeland Security. She was focused on transforming, implementing and maintaining robust IT security programs. Ms. Titus also serves on the Executive Advisory Board for Forcepoint a cyber security company and the Board of Advisors for Guardant Global a worldwide services company. She is on the Board of Directors for the Girl Scouts for the Commonwealth of Virgina and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Ponemon Institute. She serves on the Board of Advisors for the Executive Women's forum. Ms. Titus also worked overseas for several years in various positions within the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. State Department and various private sector firms. She has more than 25 years of security management experience. Learn more at www.PrivacyPiracy.org

Philly.NET founder and coding-legend Bill Wolff visits the podcast to talk about both the forthcoming Philly Code Camp 2019.1 and the user-group experience in general. ----more---- Bill is an independent consultant, trainer, and architect specializing in Microsoft development technologies under the name Agility Systems. He served as the SharePoint Practice Director at Capax Global, Solutions Architect in the Microsoft Practice at Unisys Corporation, and ran the Microsoft Alliance at LiquidHub. He ran the consulting firm Wolff Data Systems for 15 years and directed armies of consultants in the dot com world. Bill is founder and President of the Philly.NET user group, a previous INETA board member where he served as Vice President of the Speaker Bureau, and involved in several other user communities. Bill was a contributing author on several books. His certifications include trainer, systems engineer, developer, and Microsoft MVP.  PLEASE VISIT http://azureability.com for show notes and additional episodes.  Also, if you like (or even hate!) what we're doing, please take the time to share your comments and suggestions, or you can reach out to Louis directly  by email (lberman@microsoft.com) or twitter (@azureability).  CREDITS: Louis Berman (Host); Bill Wolff (Guest); Gretchen Huebner (Kodable PSA), Simon Hillvo (MakeCode PSA); Megan Hochstatter (Code.org PSA); Vincent Tone / PremiumBeat (Music); Heather Walsh (Intro/Outro); Louis Berman (Engineer); East Coast Studio (Editing) TRANSCRIPT: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/1c5a0342-11e8-4e1d-b656-d0bf35b80614/videos/9e7b44f29c/  PODCAST CLIENTS: You can find AzureABILITY on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Spotify, or simply use our RSS Feed (http://www.azureability.com/feed.xml) and plug it into your podcast client of choice.

Join us for Episode 7 of The Confessions of Angry Programmers podcast! In this episode David and Woody talk about: Dogfooding: David talks about his frustrations with Microsoft OneNote that he has been dealing with for years. WTF Were They Thinking?: Woody discusses why there isn't better integration with Office 365 apps. Guest We are joined by our guest Bill Wolff. Bill goes way back, all the way back to the 70's and discusses being part of a tech community, user groups, conferences and more. Bill has some great stories from the past and even talks about how he once picked up Bill Gates at an airport to speak at a community event in the Philadelphia, PA area. Bill Wolff is an independent consultant, trainer, and architect specializing in Microsoft development technologies under the name Agility Systems. He served as the SharePoint Practice Director at Capax Global, Solutions Architect in the Microsoft Practice at Unisys Corporation, and ran the Microsoft Alliance at LiquidHub. He ran the consulting firm Wolff Data Systems for 15 years and directed armies of consultants in the dot com world. Bill is founder and President of the philly.NET user group, a previous INETA board member where he served as Vice President of the Speaker Bureau, and involved in several other user communities. Bill was a contributing author on several books. His certifications include trainer, systems engineer, developer, and Microsoft MVP. Resources David McCarter's Books on Amazon Next Episode The next episode will feature Dogfooding & WTF Where They Thinking along with a special guest. Have a comment or suggestion? Want to be a guest on the show? Click here to contact us.

The EastWest Institute's Global Vice President and cyberspace program chief Bruce McConnell speaks with Peter Altabef, EWI board member and chairman and CEO of Unisys Corporation. The two discuss the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and the “Cybersecurity Moonshot” initiative, which is working to develop a robust set of recommendations for a broad plan for a safer, more resilient use of the Internet to deliver government and critical infrastructure services. “We must take on cybersecurity with the same foresight, effort and intensity once reserved for national security,” Altabef argues. “Cybersecurity is national security.”

Patricia Titus was the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Freddie Mac, Symantec, Unisys Corporation and the Transportation Security Administration within the Department of Homeland Security. She was focused on transforming, implementing and maintaining robust IT security programs. She is now the Chief Information Security Officer And Chief Privacy Officer at Markel Corporation.

On this episode of Capital Club Radio... Michael Flock interviews Tom Simonson at the RMA conference in Las Vegas about  his monumental undertaking, the re-engineering of Bill Bartmann's Commercial Financial Services (CFS) and reviving Bill's dream and Transforming CFS into Merit Financial. Tom is the President and CEO of the Merit Family of Companies, formed in 2017 and comprised of Merit Financial Solutions, Financial Samaritan and Financial Samaritan Lending. Additionally, Tom is President and CEO of CFS2, Inc., the debt buying, servicing and collection R&D company that developed the methods and software now being used by Merit Financial Solutions. Prior to becoming President and CEO of CFS2 in December 2016, Tom had served as COO of CFS2, a position he has held since August, 2014. Prior to this, Tom was Worldwide General Manager of the Technology, Consulting and Systems Integration Division at Unisys Corporation. He was responsible for their global go-to-market plan, sales, field operations and customer satisfaction. Tom, a graduate of Drexel University, began his career with over 20 years of service at IBM where he held a variety of senior executive positions. He lived for two years in Paris, France while working as an executive at IBM's European headquarters. Here is a glimpse of what Tom shared in the interview. "I think there was always two sides to the Bill Bartmann story and the controversy around it. On the one hand, you had what you described, which was the scandal and the ultimate demise of CFS. But on the other hand, you had a man who was quite the visionary and could see things that others in the industry or in other industries did not see..." "I learned that you need a precise strategy, that you need maniacal focus, and you need a certain level of cadence and discipline..." "when you're building the business and you're making the level of transformation that we are, you do rely on investors up front and you have to learn to raise money as part of your everyday operating..." To learn more visit: http://www.meritfinancialsolutions.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomsimonson1 Capital Club Radio Hosted by: Michael Flock Sponsored by: Flock Specialty Finance Providing a forum for leaders in the middle market segment which has typically been undeserved by traditional banking. Listeners gain valuable business insights and perspectives to deal with market uncertainty. Topics include: key success factors, both personal and professional, dealing with adversity, outlook for the industry and your business. For more info about Michael Flock and Flock Specialty Finance visit: www.FlockFinance.com To nominate or submit a guest request visit: www.CapitalClubRadioShow.com To view more photos from this show visit: www.ProBusinessPictures.com ‹ › × × Previous Next jQuery(function() { // Set blueimp gallery options jQuery.extend(blueimp.Gallery.prototype.options, { useBootstrapModal: false, hidePageScrollbars: false }); });

Jeff Henry brings more than thirty years of sales expertise to his role as president of ViON. Read the complete transcript to this podcast on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website He's responsible for the company's overall operations, strategic execution, marketing and revenue. Prior to ViON, Jeff served as a senior Vice-President and general manager of the Americas at Hitachi Data Systems, where he led a team of two thousand employees. During his tenure, revenue and profitability almost doubled. Before his stint with Hitachi, Jeff served as a Vice-President and general manager of North American sales for Unisys Corporation, and was Vice-President of global accounts for Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Dr. Allan Mink shares his experiences in making career pivots and best practices on adapting to radical change.   You'll Learn: The argument for radical career changes The importance of personal relationships in making a successful pivot How to effectively manage your skill gaps when you pivot   About Allan Dr. Allan Mink teaches Management, Information, and Systems as an Adjunct Professor at American University’s Kogod Graduate School of Business. Dr. Mink is the Managing Director for Systems Spirit, a boutique consulting team influential in connecting technology firms with the needs of the Department of Defense. Dr. Mink previously served as the business growth lead for SRA International's largest business unit; Vice President, Defense and Intelligence for Unisys Corporation; and COO/CTO of the Systems and Software Consortium. Al retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel and decorated combat pilot. His final assignment was at Headquarters Air Force, leading the USAF's portfolio of thirteen IT Initiatives for what's now the A6/CIO. He is an Advisory Board Member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, which informs, advises, and coaches technology entrepreneurs to start and grow firms with world-changing impact.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep179

Dr. Allan Mink shares his experiences in making career pivots and best practices on adapting to radical change.You'll Learn:1) The argument for radical career changes2) The importance of personal relationships in making a successful pivot3) How to effectively manage your skill gaps when you pivotAbout AllanDr. Allan Mink teaches Management, Information, and Systems as an Adjunct Professor at American University's Kogod Graduate School of Business. Dr. Mink is the Managing Director for Systems Spirit, a boutique consulting team influential in connecting technology firms with the needs of the Department of Defense. Dr. Mink previously served as the business growth lead for SRA International's largest business unit; Vice President, Defense and Intelligence for Unisys Corporation; and COO/CTO of the Systems and Software Consortium. Al retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel and decorated combat pilot. His final assignment was at Headquarters Air Force, leading the USAF's portfolio of thirteen IT Initiatives for what's now the A6/CIO. He is an Advisory Board Member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, which informs, advises, and coaches technology entrepreneurs to start and grow firms with world-changing impact.Items Mentioned in this Show:Sponsor: TextExpanderArticle: 15 Habits of self-made millionairesArticle: The Adventures of an IT Leader by Richard NolanBook: For Your Improvement by Heather Barnfield and Michael LombardoBook: The Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyView transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep179.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In honor of Women's History Month, Linda welcomes Toni Townes-Whitley, corporate VP of Worldwide Public Sector and Industry at Microsoft. She leads company strategy to drive digital transformation across public sector & commercial industry customers and partners in support of Microsoft’s mission to empower every person & organization on the planet to achieve more.  In addition to championing innovative technology adoption & creating business value for industry customers, Townes-Whitley is passionate about creating positive societal and global impact through cloud technology that is trusted, responsible, and inclusive. Prior to joining Microsoft, Townes-Whitley was president of CGI Federal, where she was responsible for a portfolio of over a $1billion, leading 6,600 employees in more than 70 countries to deliver greater value to US Government civilian, defense & intelligence sectors. Before CGI, Townes-Whitley held management roles at Unisys Corporation leading global public sector systems integration and the Federal Civilian group, where she achieved 500 percent revenue growth and doubled profitability. Townes-Whitley is a graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and has certifications from Wharton Executive Education,  and the Performance Management Institute.  She is on the boards of United Way, the Women’s Center of No Virginia, & the Leadership Foundry. She continues to support the US Peace Corps, where she volunteered for three years, teaching in Central Africa village. Townes-Whitley and her husband have five children and two grandchildren. In her free time, Townes-Whitley enjoys writing and is finishing her first screenplay.                                                             

Dr. Larry Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research ?think tank? dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy auditing and the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework. Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to Institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University?s CIO Institute. He is a founding board member of the Unisys Corporation?s Security Leadership Institute. Dr. Ponemon consults with leading multinational organizations on global privacy management programs. He has extensive knowledge of regulatory frameworks for managing privacy and data security including financial services, health care, pharmaceutical, telecom and Internet. Dr. Ponemon was appointed to the Advisory Committee for Online Access & Security for the United States Federal Trade Commission. He was recently appointed by the White House to the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee for the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Ponemon was also an appointed to two California State task forces on privacy and data security laws. Dr. Ponemon is a member of the National Board of Advisors of the Eller College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona. He serves as Chairman of the Government Policy Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the Internet Task Force for the Council of American Survey and Research Organizations (CASRO). Dr. Ponemon was a senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he founded the firm?s global compliance risk management group. Prior to joining Price Waterhouse as a partner, Dr. Ponemon served as the National Director of Business Ethics Services for KPMG Peat Marwick, and was appointed Executive Director of the KPMG Business Ethics Institute. Dr. Ponemon has held chaired (tenured) faculty positions and published numerous articles and learned books. He has presented more than 500 keynote speeches or learned presentations at national or international conferences on privacy, data protection, information security, corporate governance, and responsible information management. Dr. Ponemon is an active member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, serving as founding member of the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) Advisory Board. Dr. Ponemon is column editor for Computerworld, CSO Magazine, BNA, Dark Reading and other leading publications. He is a frequent commentator on privacy and business ethics for CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times, Business 2.0, Newsweek, Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, CIO Magazine, Industry Standard, Boston Globe, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, Forbes, Fortune, CFO Magazine, Red Herring, Dow Jones News and others. Dr. Ponemon earned his Ph.D. at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He has a Master?s degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended the doctoral program in system sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Ponemon earned his Bachelors with Highest Distinction from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. He is a Certified Public Accountant (active license in Texas). Dr. Ponemon is a veteran (Vietnam War era) of the United States Navy. He is married and has two sons.

Welcome to the sixth episode of Todd Cohen's "Let's Talk Sales Culture" show from BlogTalkRadio.com. Todd launched his new live Internet radio call-in show on December 18, 2008. Episode #6, “Amazing Sales Results through Effective Networking,”  features lively interaction between Todd and his guests, Philadelphia-based business professor, entrepreneur and consultant Steve Smolinsky, and Oliver Picher, founder and president of Visible Influence, LLC, which helps businesses, executives, and professionals make themselves more visible and attract more business. Smolinsky is also a founding partner of Conversation On Networking, a provider of interactive, educational programs on developing and maintaining great relationships for business and life. Picher, a senior public relations and communications consultant with more than 20 years experience, has most recently been active in Content Marketing, using targeted and compelling original content to reach and engage potential clients and partners.               Steve Smolinsky A senior public relations and communications consultant with more than 20 years experience in the high tech, professional services, human resource consulting, and medical fields, Oliver Picher is an expert in public relations, communications strategy, message and content development, writing, and research. Picher has most recently been active in Content Marketing, using targeted and compelling original content to reach and engage potential clients and partners. For example, he is working with Basecamp Business and the Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance to develop a business events calendar targeted at entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and professionals. The calendar tracks events held by over 200 organizations throughout the Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware regions. The University City Science Center, Select Greater Philadelphia, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners have recently provided significant funding to the project. Previously, Oliver was Marketing Director for Synygy Inc., an Inc 500 Hall of Fame professional services company. Synygy's fast-paced growth gave him solid experience in every aspect of marketing, branding, and public relations. Oliver helped build momentum in Synygy's sales and marketing and found creative ways to position Synygy as a market leader. Oliver was also a member of the Corporate Communications department at Unisys Corporation, where he contributed to repositioning Unisys from an old-line mainframe computer manufacturer to a technology-led professional services and solutions company. Download the podcast of episode 6 here (20.1 mb mono MP3 file, 01:29:04 duration). Subscribe to the RSS feed for Todd Cohen's Sales Leader podcast series. Subscribe to the RSS feed for Todd's BlogTalkRadio "Let's Talk Sales Culture" radio show. Apple iPod owners, subscribe to all of Todd's podcasts in the Apple iTunes Music Store.   More information on Todd's BlogTalkRadio show is available at Todd's Show Page. Read the press release about Todd's first BlogTalkRadio show here. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ. Keywords: Community of Sales Professionals, Matrix Organization, Networking, Sales Candidates, Hiring Models, Sales Coaching, Sales Communication, Sales Community, Keywords: Sales Excellence, Sales Leadership, Sales Management, Training, Sales Metrics, Sales Networking, Sales Process Training, Sales Teams, Sales Training, Salesperson, Sales Training Program, virtual teams, sales success triad del.icio.us Tags: Community of Sales Professionals,Matrix Organization,Networking,Sales Candidates,Hiring Models,Sales Coaching,Sales Communication,Sales Community,Keywords: Sales Excellence,Sales Leadership,Sales Management,Training,Sales Metrics,Sales Networking,Sales Process Training,Sales Teams,Sales Training,Salesperson,Sales Training Program,virtual teams

Tom Coughlin Tom is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates and Chairman of the 2007 Data Protection Summit. Tom has over 25 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical and corporate executive. For several years he has been collaborating with the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego on the sanitization of disk drive data. In addition to regular technical and market consulting projects he is the publisher of several reports covering technology and applications for digital storage devices and systems including storage components, capital spending, storage technology trends, a series on storage and digital entertainment and a series on system storage. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference (which celebrated its sixth year in 2007). Tom is a senior member and officer of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE, as well as a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, and SMPTE. Websites:www.dataprotectionsummit.com or www.TomCoughlin.com Jay Kramer Jay brings to iStor over 20 years of sales and marketing executive management experience. He has been a world recognized technology consultant specializing in the network storage industry for both private and NASDAQ listed organizations along with providing consulting services to the leading network storage product companies. Prior to joining iStor Networks, Kramer was Chairman of the ILM Summit and Data Protection Summit which are leading sources of information on network storage. His background includes the emergence of Infinity I/O Inc. as a leading provider of storage network education, training, and certification. Jay has an extensive marketing management background having been VP of Marketing for Creative Design Solutions, Inc., an OEM provider of Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology, VP of Marketing for Maxtor/Seagate Corporation which acquired CDS and Director of Strategic Planning & Business Development for the Storage Systems Division of Unisys Corporation. In this position, Kramer directed their fibre channel and storage networking business initiatives. Kramer has also served the network storage industry in a number of leadership positions over the last decade. He was previously elected to the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association for 7 years running and served as the first CFO for the organization. He continues to serve in an advisory position with leading technology conferences such as the Flash Memory Summit and Data Protection Summit. Jay has also been a featured speaker for many industry conferences including Storage Networking World and Storage World Conference. Jay holds dual degrees in Marketing and Finance from The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. Visit Jay's Website: www.istor.com

om is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates and Chairman of the 2007 Data Protection Summit. Tom has over 25 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical and corporate executive. For several years he has been collaborating with the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego on the sanitization of disk drive data. In addition to regular technical and market consulting projects he is the publisher of several reports covering technology and applications for digital storage devices and systems including storage components, capital spending, storage technology trends, a series on storage and digital entertainment and a series on system storage. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference (which celebrated its sixth year in 2007). Tom is a senior member and officer of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE, as well as a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, and SMPTE. Websites:www.dataprotectionsummit.com or www.TomCoughlin.com Jay Kramer Jay brings to iStor over 20 years of sales and marketing executive management experience. He has been a world recognized technology consultant specializing in the network storage industry for both private and NASDAQ listed organizations along with providing consulting services to the leading network storage product companies. Prior to joining iStor Networks, Kramer was Chairman of the ILM Summit and Data Protection Summit which are leading sources of information on network storage. His background includes the emergence of Infinity I/O Inc. as a leading provider of storage network education, training, and certification. Jay has an extensive marketing management background having been VP of Marketing for Creative Design Solutions, Inc., an OEM provider of Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology, VP of Marketing for Maxtor/Seagate Corporation which acquired CDS and Director of Strategic Planning & Business Development for the Storage Systems Division of Unisys Corporation. In this position, Kramer directed their fibre channel and storage networking business initiatives. Kramer has also served the network storage industry in a number of leadership positions over the last decade. He was previously elected to the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association for 7 years running and served as the first CFO for the organization. He continues to serve in an advisory position with leading technology conferences such as the Flash Memory Summit and Data Protection Summit. Jay has also been a featured speaker for many industry conferences including Storage Networking World and Storage World Conference. Jay holds dual degrees in Marketing and Finance from The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. Visit Jay's Website: www.istor.com

Dr. Lawrence A. Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research think tank dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy risk management and the development of the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework. Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to Institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for information ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University's CIO Institute and is faculty of CyLab. He serves on the Unisys Corporation?s Security Leadership Institute Board and the IBM Privacy Management Council. Dr. Ponemon is a member of the National Board of Advisors of the Eller College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona. He serves on the Government Policy Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the Internet Task Force for the Council of American Survey and Research Organizations (CASRO). Dr. Ponemon earned his Ph.D. at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He has a Master?s degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended the doctoral program in system sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Ponemon earned his Bachelors with Highest Distinction from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Please visit Dr. Ponemon's web site: www.ponemon.org Susan Jayson Susan Jayson is executive director and co-founder of Ponemon Institute, LLC. In this role, Susan is responsible for managing the Institute's operations, including research on privacy and information management issues. Susan's background includes marketing, investor relations and corporate communications for such leading organizations as KPMG Peat Marwick, Arthur Andersen and the Financial Relations Board.

Dr. Lawrence A. Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research think tank dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy risk management and the development of the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework. Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to Institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for information ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University's CIO Institute and is faculty of CyLab. He serves on the Unisys Corporation?s Security Leadership Institute Board and the IBM Privacy Management Council. Dr. Ponemon is a member of the National Board of Advisors of the Eller College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona. He serves on the Government Policy Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the Internet Task Force for the Council of American Survey and Research Organizations (CASRO).

Dr. Lawrence A. Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research think tank dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy risk management and the development of the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework. Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to Institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for information ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University's CIO Institute and is faculty of CyLab. He serves on the Unisys Corporation?s Security Leadership Institute Board and the IBM Privacy Management Council. This interview focuses on recent surveys of Americans' perceptions of surveillance, outsourcing, and workplace privacy.