March 2003
Friends of
the College of Engineering,
The
third annual Berkeley in Silicon Valley Symposium, attended
by about 200 people, closed with a lively panel discussion
on homeland security and privacy.
Yvette
Subramanian photo
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On Saturday March
1st, the Colleges of Chemistry and Engineering sponsored
our third annual Berkeley
in Silicon Valley Symposium for around 200 enthusiastic
attendees. After a thoughtful and inspiring keynote presentation
by alumnus Eric Schmidt,
Google Chairman and CEO (video
available), it was a hard choice for many as to which of the
three parallel sessions to attend. I noticed a number of couples
in the audience, who split up to attend different sessions and then
compared notes at the lunch break.
Professor Eric Brewer took a particularly interesting and unusual
tack in the Homeland Security and Privacy track, arguing
that by developing and deploying a reliable and cost-effective information
and communications technology platform for the developing world
— and so providing some of the critical tools needed for improved
economic development in these regions — we are more likely
to achieve the global stability to which we all aspire. Eric's
slides are also available online.
 Alumnus
and Google CEO Eric Schmidt shares his wisdom during the
event's keynote address. (Watch
the video.)
Angela
Privin photo
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The program closed with a lively panel discussion on homeland security
and privacy featuring Mark Kvamme of Sequoia Capital; Teresa
Lunt of the Palo Alto Research Center; Chuck Shank, Director of
the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and our own Professor
Doug Tygar, EECS and SIMS. Chair Shankar Sastry led a
lively discussion to end what was an informative and inspiring (and
occasionally quite sobering!) day.
Many thanks
to Sun Microsystems (I must admit that in hindsight, Sun
— short for Stanford University Network — does
sound better than the other choice available at the company's founding:
Bun Microsystems) for sponsoring our event on the Sun Santa
Clara campus.
In this month's Lab Notes we also pay special tribute to Professor
Emeritus William Jewell, IEOR, who passed away recently.
Not only an exceptional scholar, Bill was an infectious optimist
with very broad interests, and was an inspirational mentor to many
generations of students throughout his distinguished career. Bill
was without doubt a wonderful Berkeley Engineering example for us
all.
Very best wishes, and Go Bears!
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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