Lisette Titre-Montgomery

Lisette Titre-Montgomery (Born June 21, 1977) is an American video game artist and designer. She has worked at Backbone Entertainment, EA Games, Ubisoft and currently works for Double Fine Productions. Titre is also involved in promoting diversity in video games and computer programming.
Biography.
Titre was born on June 21, 1977. She had been both a gamer and an artist from a young age. After seeing "Toy Story", she was inspired to study computer animation. Titre graduated with a degree in computer animation from Miami International University of Art and Design in 2000. Titre currently lives in Oakland and is married to Marcus Montgomery.
Career.
Titre's first animation job was working in 2001 as a character modeler for the game, "Freekstyle". Working on "Freekstyle" helped her land a job as a senior character and special effects artist at EA Games around 2005. She worked on "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007" as her first project at EA. Other games she helped develop were "The Simpsons Game", "The Godfather II" and "Dante's Inferno". In 2011, she left EA Games and went on to become the lead artist at Backbone Entertainment. At Backbone, she worked on "" and "Midway Arcade Origins". Titre returned to EA Games in 2013, where she worked on "Dance Central 3" and "The Sims 4".
Around 2015, Titre started working as the manager of the art and computer animation department for Ubisoft. Titre was invited to the 2016 White House LGBTQ Tech and Innovation briefing. Starting in 2017, Titre became the art manager at Double Fine Productions, where she has worked on "Psychonauts 2".
Titre is a member of Blacks In Gaming, a nonprofit group that provides networking and collaboration opportunities for African Americans working in the gaming industry. She is also involved in Black Girls Code and Girls Who Code. She was featured in "Essence" in 2018 in an article called "15 Black Women Who Are Paving the Way in STEM and Breaking Barriers."


Drapers (magazine)

Drapers is a business-to-business magazine and website covering the fashion retail sector. It was founded on 6 August 1887 to cover the women's clothing retail trade, but today spans the whole fashion retail sector, including wider retail issues such as digital transformation, technological advances and the management of supply chains.
Drapers also hosts a series of conferences, events and awards ceremonies throughout the year to recognize the best-performing businesses and to share learnings.
The publication is owned by Metropolis.
History.
"Drapers" was founded on 6 August 1887. Former editors of the magazine and website have included Freddie Offley, Sally Bain, Josephine Collins, Lauretta Roberts, Jessica Brown, Caroline Nodder, Eric Musgrave and Keely Stocker. The current editor is Kirsty McGregor.
In 1961, "Drapers Record" was bought along with the "Illustrated London News", "Men's Wear" and "Tatler" by the Thomson Corporation and formed into the new Thomson Publications business. Thomson sold "Drapers Record" in 1985, along with the "Illustrated London News", "Family Circle", "Living", and "Construction News". From 1988 to 1992, it was known as "DR The Fashion Business", but from 1992 it returned to its original name "Drapers Record".
In 2002, "Drapers Record" merged with sister title "Men's Wear", which had been launched in 1902, to become simply "Drapers". In November 2006, Emap started making a version of the magazine available digitally every week. The website was relaunched in 2009.
The "Drapers" website was refreshed and re-launched in 2014. The magazine has undergone regular redesigns over the years, with the most recent in January 2017.
Often referred to as the "fashion industry bible", "Drapers" has broken many of the biggest stories impacting the sector and has interviewed many of the key players including Tommy Hilfiger, David Reiss, Alex Baldock, Michael Ward, managing director of Harrods, and Topshop managing director Mary Homer.
"Drapers" celebrated its 130th anniversary in August 2017.
It was one of 13 titles acquired from Ascential by Metropolis International Ltd in a £23.5m cash deal, announced on 1 June 2017.


Gary di Silvestri

Gary di Silvestri (born February 3, 1967 in Staten Island, United States) cross-country skier who unsuccessfully competed for Dominica at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 15 kilometre classical race.
Gary di Silvestri is a graduate of Monsignor Farrell High School in Staten Island, New York, where he was a member of the football, wrestling and track & field teams. He has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. In 1997, di Silvestri founded Deutsche Suisse Asset Management. The Di Silvestris were accused in 2014 of evading paying taxes on the sale of their Turks and Caicos mansion in 2006, but were never indicted.
Olympics.
With sights set on competing at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, di Silvestri raced in five Olympic qualifiers leading up to the games. He and his wife Angelica di Silvestri earned points by competing in qualifying races in lower level tournaments in New Zealand and North America. Prior to the start of the games, Silvestri fell ill by contracting acute gastroenteritis, and was unable to finish the 15 km race. He was one of four competitors to not finish his 15km event (there was also one non-starter).


Carder (surname)

Carder is a surname of English origin, derived from the occupation of carding.


David Hanson (computer scientist)

David R. Hanson is a software engineer who worked at Google until he retired in January 2012, working in programming languages, compilers, software tools, and programming environments. Before joining Google, he was with Microsoft Research, Princeton, University of Arizona, and Yale. He has written many journal and conference papers and two books: "A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation" with Christopher Fraser, which describes lcc, a widely used compiler for Standard C, and "C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software".
Hanson is largely responsible for designing and implementing the "View as Slideshow" feature for PowerPoint and attachments in Google's Gmail system.
Hanson has one daughter born November 2, 1977, named Jennifer, who worked as a compiler in his second book.
Hanson enjoys skiing and cycling. He also builds furniture.
Additionally, Hanson is well known among Tufts University students for his confusing yet efficient implementations of various data structures.


Jane Ng

Jane Ng is a Chinese-American 3D environment artist, best known for her work on "Firewatch", "The Cave", and "Brütal Legend". She currently works at Campo Santo, a game studio that is part of Valve, as a Senior Environment Artist. Other notable works include "Stacking", "Costume Quest", "Spore", and "The Godfather".
She graduated from the Swarthmore College in 2001 having studied Studio Arts and Engineering.
Career.
Jane Ng has worked in the video game industry for more than 10 years. She started her journey into the video game industry through a summer internship position at Ronin Studios.
After Ronin went out of business she moved on to working at Electronic Arts and began work on "Return of the King".
After three years of working at Electronic Arts, she moved to Double Fine Productions where she worked on some of their most defining titles such as "Stacking", "Costume Quest", and "Brutal Legend". Then after 6 years of employment, she moved on to her most notable role as the lead environment artist at Campo Santo as they made their flagship title "Firewatch".


William Lutley Sclater

William Lutley Sclater (23 September 1863 – 4 July 1944) was a British zoologist and museum director. He was the son of Philip Lutley Sclater and was named after his paternal grandfather, also William Lutley Sclater.
William's mother, Jane Anne Eliza, was the daughter of Sir David Hunter-Blair and a sister-in-law of Sir Walter Elliot the Indian naturalist. Sclater received his Master of Arts degree in Natural Science from Keble College at Oxford in 1885. He worked for two years as a Demonstrator at Cambridge under Professor Adam Sedgwick and went on a collecting trip to British Guiana in 1886. He published about birds in the Ibis in 1887. In the same year, he received an appointment as a deputy superintendent of the Indian Museum in Calcutta from 1887 until 1891, when he joined the science faculty of Eton College.
It was at Eton that he met his future wife, Charlotte Mellen Stephenson, an American divorcée whose two sons attended the school. The couple were married at St. George's Cathedral in London on 1 February 1896 at St. George, shortly after which they moved to Cape Town, South Africa. Here, Sclater took up the position of curator at the South African Museum, whose collections he reorganized and moved into a new facility. During his time in South Africa, he continued his scientific writings, including completion of the work "Flora and Fauna of South Africa". He also completed the four-volume series "The Birds of South Africa", begun by Dr Arthur Stark; the five-volume "Birds of Africa", begun by Captain George Shelley; and "The Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate", begun by Sir Frederick John Jackson.
In 1906, following a dispute with the Museum's board of trustees, Sclater resigned as curator. He travelled with his wife through Mombasa, Lake Victoria, Khartoum, and Cairo before returning to England. He then moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, which had been founded by Charlotte's brother-in-law, General William Jackson Palmer. Palmer offered Sclater a small estate outside the city and a professorship at Colorado College. Here, he helped in reorganizing the museum. When the general died in 1909, the couple returned to England.
From 1909 Sclater became curator of the Bird Room at the Natural History Museum. While working there he compiled the "Systema Avium Aethiopicarum" (1924 - 1930), a scholarly work that assisted further research. He worked there until his death in 1944.
In 1912, Sclater published "A History of the Birds of Colorado" in two volumes. During the Great War, he volunteered for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association. Both his stepsons were killed in action during the war:
Sclater was editor of "Ibis" from 1913 to 1930, editor of the Zoological Record from 1921 to 1937, president of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1928 to 1933, and secretary of the Royal Geographical Society from 1931 to 1943. In 1919 and 1920, he and his wife travelled around the globe. In 1930, he was awarded the Godman-Salvin Gold Medal.
In 1942, Charlotte died of injuries sustained during the bombing of London. Two years later, William Sclater died at St. George's Hospital, two days after a V-1 flying bomb fell over his home at 10 Sloane Court in Chelsea on Sunday, 2 July 1944.
Known mainly for his work with birds, Sclater also described several new species of amphibians and reptiles Four new snakes were described by him in a single paper in 1891. "Enuliophis sclateri" Boulenger 1894 is a snake species named after his father Philip Sclater.


Satya Nadella

Satya Narayana Nadella (; born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.
Early life.
Nadella was born in Hyderabad of present-day Telangana, India into a Telugu-speaking Hindu family. His mother Prabhavati was a Sanskrit lecturer and his father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, was an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1962 batch.
Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet before receiving a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka in 1988. Nadella then traveled to the U.S. to study for an M.S. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, receiving his degree in 1990. Later, he received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1996.
Nadella said, "I always knew I wanted to build things."
Career.
Sun Microsystems.
Nadella worked at Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff before joining Microsoft in 1992.
Microsoft.
At Microsoft, Nadella has led major projects that included the company's move to cloud computing and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.
Nadella worked as the senior vice-president of Research and Development (R&D) for the Online Services Division and vice-president of the Microsoft Business Division. Later, he was made the president of Microsoft's $19 billion Server and Tools Business and led a transformation of the company's business and technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services. He has been credited for helping bring Microsoft's database, Windows Server and developer tools to its Azure cloud. The revenue from Cloud Services grew to $20.3 billion in June 2013 from $16.6 billion when he took over in 2011. He received $84.5 million in 2016 pay.
Nadella's 2013 base salary was nearly $700,000, for a total compensation, with stock bonuses, of $17.6 million.
Previous positions held by Nadella include:
On 4 February 2014, Nadella was announced as the new CEO of Microsoft, the third CEO in the company's history, following Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
In October 2014, Nadella attended an event on Women in Computing and courted controversy after he made a statement that women should not ask for a raise and should trust the system. Nadella was criticised for the statement and he later apologized on Twitter. He then sent an email to Microsoft employees admitting he was "Completely wrong."
Nadella's tenure at Microsoft has emphasized working with companies and technologies with which Microsoft also competes, including Apple Inc., Salesforce, IBM, and Dropbox. In contrast to previous Microsoft campaigns against the Linux operating system, Nadella proclaimed that "Microsoft ❤ Linux", and Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member in 2016.
Under Nadella, Microsoft revised its mission statement to "empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more". He orchestrated a cultural shift at Microsoft by emphasizing empathy, collaboration, and 'growth mindset'. He has transformed Microsoft's corporate culture into one that emphasizes continual learning and growth.
In 2014, Nadella's first acquisition with Microsoft's was of Mojang, a Swedish game company best known for the computer game "Minecraft", for $2.5 billion. He followed that by purchasing Xamarin for an undisclosed amount. He oversaw the purchase of professional network LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2 billion. On October 26, 2018, Microsoft acquired GitHub for US$7.5 billion.
Since Nadella became CEO, Microsoft stock had tripled by September 2018, with a 27% annual growth rate.
Awards and recognition.
In 2018, he was a "Time" 100 honoree. In 2019, Nadella was named "Financial Times" Person of the Year and "Fortune" magazine Businessperson of the Year. In 2020, Nadella was recognized as Global Indian Business Icon at CNBC-TV18's India Business Leader Awards in Mumbai.
Personal life.
In 1992, Nadella married Anupama, the daughter of his father's IAS batchmate. She was his junior at Manipal pursuing a B.Arch in the Faculty of Architecture. The couple have three children, a son and two daughters, and live in Clyde Hill and Bellevue, Washington. His son Zain is a legally blind quadriplegic with cerebral palsy.
Nadella is an avid reader of American and Indian poetry. He also nurses a passion for cricket, having played on his school team. Nadella and his wife Anupama are part of the ownership group of Seattle Sounders FC, a Major League Soccer club.
Nadella has authored a book titled "Hit Refresh" that explores his life, his career in Microsoft and how he believes technology will shape the future. He announced that the profits from the book would go to Microsoft Philanthropies and through that to nonprofit organizations.


Amar Gupta

Amar Gupta (born 1953) is a computer scientist, originally from Gujarat, India and now based in the United States. Gupta has worked in academics, private companies, and international organizations in positions that involved analysis and leveraging of opportunities at the intersection of technology and business, as well as the design, development, and implementation of prototype systems that led to widespread adoption of new techniques and technologies. He has surmounted several strategic, business, technical, economic, legal, and public policy barriers related to several innovative products and services.
Gupta has spent the bulk of his career at MIT. In 2015, he rejoined MIT to work at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences (IMES), Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) on innovation and entrepreneurship related to Digital Health and Globally Distributed Teams. He serves as Principal/Co-Principal Investigator and Coordinator for “Telemedicine” and “Enhancing Productivity of Geographically Distributed Teams” areas.
Gupta currently teaches a MIT School of Engineering course -- Telehealth and Telemedicine for Enhancing Global Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges. The course received very high grades in student evaluation of course contents and instructor for all 3 consecutive years. MIT uses a scale of 1-7 for such grades with 1 being very poor and 7 being excellent, and the course received Median Grade of 7 overall in all years. Over these past years, he has assisted multiple startups established by students of this course and supervise research of dozens of students. During 2018, he delivered the keynote addresses at events in DC for senior officials of federal government officials and for federation of state medical boards. His subsequent address streamlined to a global audience is available online.
During the interim period that he was away from MIT, Gupta served as Phyllis and Ivan Seidenberg Endowed Professor and Dean of the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Pace University, USA and as the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Management and Technology at the University of Arizona, USA. At the latter university, he was also Professor of Entrepreneuship and Professor of MIS at Eller College of Management, Professor of Computer Science in College of Science, Professor of Latin American Studies in College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Community, Environment and Policy in Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Professor at James E. Rogers College of Law, Member of the HOPE Center in College of Pharmacy, and the Director of Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Technology Initiative at the University of Arizona.
Life and career.
Gupta was born in 1953 in Nadiad, Gujarat, India. He received Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1974 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. his undergraduate project on the design and implementation of an Electronic Taximeter was one of the two finalists for the best project of that year. In 1980, Gupta received Master of Science in Management from MIT School of Management. His thesis was awarded in Brooks Prize Honorable Mention. In the same year, he received Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi for his PhD research performed at MIT.
From 1979 to 2004, Gupta served as the Founding Co-Director of the Productivity from Information Technology (PROFIT) Initiative and an allied roles at MIT Sloan School of Management. As Director of the Research Program on Communications Policy at MIT School of Engineering, Gupta coordinated the establishment of the Internet Telephony Consortium, which was subsequently renamed as the Internet and Telephony Convergence Consortium and played a pivotal role in the
commercialization of the Voice-over-IP technology. As Associate Director of MIT's International Financial Services Research Center at MIT Sloan
School of Management, he initiated and mentored the research effort that ultimately led to nationwide electronic clearance of checks, the Check-21 Act in the US, and similar innovations in other countries. As Diversity Committee Member for three terms, each 3 years long, he assisted in increasing the number of underrepresented minorities at Sloan. As a supervisor, he mentored large number of students including Salman Khan (founder of Khan
Academy), Ronjon Nag (founder of Cellmania and Lexicus), and Phil (Lik) Mui (who led the strategy formulation and execution of Google Analytics).
Gupta has served as advisor to a broad range of multinational corporations (including IBM, Citibank, Chevron, and American International Group) and international organizations on technology, innovation, and strategy issues. He has served as an advisor to several UN organizations including World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UNIDO, and the World Bank on various aspects of national policy and large-scale information management in the context of the needs of both individual agencies and member governments. He led a UNDP team to plan and implement a national financial information infrastructure in a Latin American country where 40 percent of the banks had gone bankrupt. Gupta was part of the expert group established by the WHO to formulate policy guidelines for health informatics. These guidelines were subsequently ratified as national guidelines by over 100 countries. He also served as an UNDP advisor on a $500 million nationwide effort to get computers into every school in Brazil, and as World Bank advisor on Distance Education endeavor to Mozambique. He secured approval for the proposal to establish two UN Centers of Excellence in Information Technology. He was the first person to attain the rank of Senior Research Scientist at MIT Sloan. In this position, in cooperation with Professor Lester Thurow (former Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management), he launched the United States’ first course on international outsourcing.
From 2004 to 2012, Gupta was appointed at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona as the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Management and Technology, Professor of Entrepreneurship and MIS; and Senior Director for Research and Business Development. In this role, he has established dual degree programs with the Colleges of Agriculture, Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Optics. The program was designed to lead to two graduate degrees and a certificate in entrepreneurship. Gupta played a significant role in creating the vision for new interdisciplinary research initiatives, such as the proposed multi-college endeavor that would enable United States and Mexico to enhance healthcare in bordering areas through mutual cooperation without investing any additional funds. Another potential endeavor involves the creation of a new International Center of Excellence funded entirely through private donations.
From 2012 to 2015, Gupta worked at Pace University: Seidenberg School of Computer Science for Information Systems. As the Founder and Head of the “Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Technology” initiative, Gupta interacted with the trustees of the Thomas R. Brown Foundation to delineate and refine ideas that are of high interest to the individuals who have sponsored the endowed chair. He initiated efforts to establish major interdisciplinary initiatives in telehealth and three other areas. He supervised partnerships with healthcare IT startups and jointly won several New York City’s Pilot Health Tech Innovative Project Awards and initiated new partnerships with government agencies and private organizations. One of the projects, The Telehealth Intervention Program for Seniors (TIPS), was selected for a National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Award in 2016.
Research.
National policy on Telemedicine.
Gupta proposed new national policy on Telemedicine, which became fully effective on June 11, 2018 by the US Department of Veterans Administration (VA). VA medical practitioners can now offer medical services across state lines too with virtually no incremental overhead. This new policy will lead to major
growth of this industry in the US and other countries, based on the experience with earlier innovations such as nationwide systems for automated check-processing.
Telemedicine.
Gupta conducted research on medical personnel working during day time from diverse places around the world to perform high quality services to patients in other continent(s) during night time. This idea was explored in a paper published in "Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine". In 2017, Emory University transferred some of its medical personnel to Australia so that they could work during daytime from there to attend to patients during night time in Atlanta.
Imaging.
Gupta served as chief scientist and vice president for the development of VCN ExecuVision, the first presentation graphics program. The company, Visual Communications Network also pioneered the development of clip art for the IBM personal computer.
At MIT, Gupta led a team of researchers to develop technology to automatically read handwritten information on checks and proposed a nationwide check clearance system, allowing the electronic clearance of printed, typed, and handwritten checks. This innovation is manifested in the Check 21 system in the U.S. and in similar approaches in Singapore, and Brazil. Gupta and his colleagues also developed the first microcomputer-based image database management system.
24-Hour Knowledge Factory.
The concept of the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory was developed by Gupta. This concept allows for multiple professionals in different geographical locations to work together to perform a single task or project. Research is being conducted to utilize this model in a variety of industries. In 2007, Gupta was awarded an IBM faculty award for this vision.
The 24-hour Knowledge Factory is inspired by the Industrial Revolution. Prior to the Revolution, manufacturing was a cottage industry where a product was developed from ideation to creation by a single craftsman and attending apprentices. The Revolution saw a transformation in manufactured goods from individual objects of art to interchangeable commodities. This transformation was made possible by investing unprecedented capital into specialized tools and machinery. Manufacturers, in order to leverage their invested capital as well as meet growing demands for their products, moved from daylight work hours to the modern system of working shifts around the 24 hour clock.
Today, the advanced economies of the world are moving from the production of tangible goods to the development of intangible intellectual property (IP). The frontier of IP development is still relatively new and is in much the same place as pre-Revolution manufacturing. Software, ASICs, marketing campaigns, and many other fields still, by and large, produce objects of art by the work of a relatively small number of masters and understudies. However, industry can be seen to be experimenting with this concept. In particular, contemporary software development is often a global effort with development teams distributed across North America, Europe, Russia, India, and Australia, to name a few common places. This strategy allows for an efficient design process that has a faster turnaround time. It provides the firm with access to high-talent designers who would otherwise have to move to a different country, or work at odd hours of the night. The creation of professional service teams that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries offers the potential to change the face of many industries. This new innovation will dramatically impact the manner in which companies build, test, sell, and support their products and services. The 24-hour knowledge factory can therefore deliver many benefits. However, there remain significant challenges in communication, collaboration, project management, and administration in this novel business environment. Dr. Gupta's goal is to generate new ideas, explore many alternatives, and conduct research and development of new processes and systems that will make a significant contribution to the realization of the 24 hour knowledge factory.
Healthcare Applications.
Gupta proposed the notion that healthcare applications should be handled in a three pronged manner involving on-site personnel, off-site personnel, and advanced computer techniques. Mooted this model in 2001 for improved interpretation of mammograms using on-site technicians, off-site radiologists, and emerging data mining technology. This concept won the first prize in the Big Red Venture Contest at Cornell University. An extended article on this topic was published in "The Wall Street Journal". A complementary video interview can be accessed at the website of "The Wall Street Journal".
Electronic Processing of Bank Checks.
Gupta was the lead inventor for U.S. Patent on "System and Method for Character Recognition with Normalization", (Patent #5633954, dated May 1997). This patent played a significant role in a major court case in Canada in 2010. This invention includes the automated reading of courtesy amount (the amount denoted in numerical format) and the electronic transmission of the check to the financial institution on which the check has been issued. This concept is manifested in the Check 21 legislation in the US.
Graphics and Clipart for PC.
Gupta served as Co-Founder, Chief Scientist, and Vice President of the company (Visual Communications Network, Inc.) that pioneered and commercialized the concept of presentation graphics.


Arrowsmith (surname)

Arrowsmith is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


Bernard W. Aronson

Bernard William Aronson (born May 16, 1946) was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1989 to 1993.
Overview.
Bernard W. Aronson served four U.S. Presidents -- Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama—in senior positions. He was twice awarded the State Department's highest civilian honor, the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award, for his role in ending the wars in Central America and Colombia. In April 1993 Aronson was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by Secretary of State Warren Christopher for "singular achievements in forging a bipartisan policy towards Nicaragua and tireless and successful efforts end the civil war in El Salvador. In November 2016 as U.S. Special Envoy to the Colombia Peace Process, Aronson was presented the Distinguished Service Award by Secretary of State John Kerry for "his instrumental role" in ending the 52 year long war between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In his remarks at the February 4, 2016 White House celebration of the 15th anniversary of Plan Colombia, President Barack Obama said, "I especially want to recognize someone who's played a pivotal role in the peace process. That's our Special Envoy, Bernie Aronson."
Early life and education.
Bernard W. Aronson was born in May 1946, the son of Annette and Arnold Aronson. His father was a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and received the Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work from President Bill Clinton. Bernard was born in New York City, spent his early years in Queens, and grew up in Rye, New York. He was graduated from the University of Chicago, with a B.A. with Honors in the Humanities in 1967.
Career in labor movement.
Following college, Aronson lived for five years in Appalachia. He first served as a Vista Volunteer in Cob Hill, Kentucky where he worked as a community organizer. Aronson also worked for the Council of the Southern Mountains in Berea, Kentucky where he focused on black lung, school lunches for poor children, and opposition to strip mining. He worked as a staff writer for the Raleigh Register newspaper in Beckley, West Virginia and wrote by-line articles for "The Washington Post". Aronson joined the staff of the Miners for Democracy (MFD) reform movement within the United Mine Workers of America. After helping defeat Tony Boyle, the dictatorial boss of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW), later convicted of the murder of MFD founder Jock Yablonski, in an election in February 1972, Aronson moved to Washington, D.C. where he served as Assistant to the new reform President, Arnold Miller. At the UMW, Aronson led a 13-month-long organizing campaign in Harlan County, Kentucky. Aronson appears twice in the Academy Award-winning documentary Harlan County, U.S.A., which chronicles the strike. Aronson served six years in the United States Army Reserve and received an honorable discharge in 1976.
Career in government.
Aronson worked at the White House from 1977 to 1981 as Special Assistant and Speechwriter to Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale, Executive Speechwriter to President of the United States Jimmy Carter, and Deputy Assistant to the President in the Office of the Chief of Staff. In 1981, he became director of policy of the Democratic National Committee. From 1984 to 1988, he was president of the Policy Project.
Aronson, a lifelong Democrat, was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs in February 1989 by Republican President George H. W. Bush, to pursue a bipartisan policy towards Central America. Aronson and Secretary of State James Baker negotiated the Bi-Partisan Accord on Central America, signed at the White House, March 24, 1989, which united the new Administration and leaders of the United States Congress in both parties behind the Central American Peace Plan authored by Nobel Peace Prize laureate, President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica. Aronson convinced the new Administration to make cooperation in Central America the first test of Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev's "new thinking" in foreign policy. Aronson's first official trip as Assistant Secretary was to Moscow to enlist the Soviet Union in supporting democratic elections in Nicaragua and an end the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Aronson faced multiple crises in the Western Hemisphere at the start of his tenure. At the end of his service Central America was at peace; Nicaragua had held its first democratic elections ousting the Sandinista dictatorship; Panamanian dictator General Manuel Noriega was in U.S. prison and a democratically elected government in office; Peru, with strong U.S. support had defeated Sendero Luminoso; Argentina and Brazil had placed their nuclear programs under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty; Haiti had held its first non-violent presidential election; Chile had made a peaceful transfer of power from the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship to a new democratically elected government, the Organization of American States had unanimously adopted the Santiago Declaration committing its member states to the collective defense of democracy; and every nation in the southern Hemisphere except Cuba had a democratically elected government.
At the end of his tenure in July 1993, Aronson received the Distinguished Service Award from Secretary of State Warren Christopher for "singular achievements in forging a bipartisan policy towards Nicaragua and tireless and successful efforts to end the civil war in El Salvador."
In February 2015, Aronson returned to government service when President Barack Obama appointed him U.S. Special Envoy to the Colombian Peace Process. In that capacity, Aronson made 25 trips to Havana, where peace talks were held, to help the parties negotiate a peace agreement. On February 4, 2016 President Obama hosted a 15th anniversary celebration of Plan Colombia at the White House. In his remarks, Obama said, "I especially want to recognize someone who played a vital role in the peace process. That's our Special Envoy, Bernie Aronson." In November 2016, Aronson received the Distinguished Service Award from Secretary of State John Kerry, "in recognition of your extraordinary service as Special Envoy to the Colombian Peace Process. Your steadfast determination, resolve, boundless energy, and exceptional negotiating skills were instrumental in brokering peace between the government of Colombia government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) ending the longest running conflict in the western Hemisphere."
Career in business and non-profit.
In 1993, following his tenure as Assistant Secretary of State, Aronson joined Goldman Sachs as an International Advisor for Latin America. In 1996, he co-founded ACON Investments, a mid-market private equity firm that invests in Latin America and the United States.
Aronson was a founding board member of the Center for Global Development; Board Member of the Amazon Conservation Team, the National Democratic Institute, and Freedom House. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Inter-American Dialogue, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. He also served on a variety of corporate boards of both private and public companies, including Global Hyatt; Liz Claiborne; Royal Caribbean International; Lindblad Expeditions; Mariner Energy; Kate Spade.


Development chef

A development chef is a trained chef specialising in the development of new dishes or food products.
With food companies, this type of chef is often responsible for the creating of new pre-prepared meals and food products. Within health care, the chef is often responsible for the development of variations on mainstream meals, to fit different types of diets while still having an appetizing meal. Individual restaurants seldom have development chefs but restaurant chains often do. Here the chef is typically responsible for designing dishes and ensuring that the local kitchen staff can create/prepare them to an exact standard.
Training.
Development chefs need sufficient training in Culinary arts, experimental food methods and food science plus sufficient experience in the actual preparation of dishes. In practice, this means most development chefs will have a background as a professional chef.


Angela Care Evans

Angela Care Evans, , is an archaeologist and former Curator in the department of Britain, Europe, and Prehistory at the British Museum. She has published extensively on the Sutton Hoo Mound 1 artefacts and early medieval metalwork.
Expertise.
Care Evans is an expert in early medieval English archaeology and material culture, especially the Sutton Hoo burial, metalwork including brooches and horse harnesses, and shipbuilding.
In 1983 she co-authored with Rupert Bruce Mitford volume three of the British Museum's guides to the Sutton Hoo excavations and artefacts.
In 1986 she published the second edition of "The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial", the mass-market publication by the British Museum about the Sutton Hoo artefacts, which condensed the four volumes by Bruce Mitford, and later Bruce Mitford and Care Evans, into a single book suitable for general interest. Another edition was issued in 1994. Care Evans is careful in the book to discuss arguments for and against Rædwald as the person buried in Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo, and she proposes that the artefacts are treated as 'art' rather than 'regalia', as the notion of royalty in early medieval England does not exactly align with modern royalty.
In her 1999 article "In Debt to the Amateurs", Care Evans discussed how the photographs of Sutton Hoo taken in 1939 by Mercie Lack ARPS and Barbara Wagstaff ARPS have importantly shaped the reception and understanding of the archaeological site: with the images of the 'ghost ship' acquired by the Woodbridge, Ipswich and British Museum, and entering into the visual culture of early medieval historiography.
In 2005 she co-authored "Sutton Hoo: A Seventh-century Princely Burial Ground and Its Context" with archaeologist Martin Carver for the British Museum Press. Care Evans specifically wrote about the Mound 1 bridle with gilt bronze plaques and interlace ornamentation. In October 2008 she and Carver hosted the Sutton Hoo Society's annual conference 'Arts and Crafts in the Mead Hall'.
She has appeared in ITV, Channel 4, and BBC television programmes as a specialist on the Sutton Hoo ship burial, including "Time Team" (2002) and "Masterpieces of the British Museum" (2006).
Care Evans continues to give lectures and seminars on early medieval topics.


Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Felicia Moyo (born ) is a Zambian economist and author who analyzes the macroeconomy and global affairs. She currently serves on the boards of Chevron Corporation and the 3M Company. She worked for two years at the World Bank and eight years at Goldman Sachs before becoming an author and international public speaker. She has written four "New York Times" bestselling books: "Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa" (2009), "How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead" (2011), "Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World" (2012), and the most recent "Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It" (2018). She holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and an MBA from American University, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a DPhil in economics from the University of Oxford.
Early life and education.
Dambisa Moyo was born in 1969 in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. She spent some of her childhood in the United States, while her father was pursuing his post graduate education, then returned to Zambia. Moyo studied chemistry at the University of Zambia but left in 1991 for her university studies. She finished her degree in the U.S. via a scholarship to American University in Washington, D.C. Moyo received a BS in chemistry from American University in 1991, then an MBA in finance from the university in 1993.
She acquired a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997. In 2002 she received a DPhil in economics from St Antony's College, Oxford University. Her Oxford studies were in macroeconomics, and her doctoral dissertation was on savings rates in developing countries.
Career.
World Bank and Goldman Sachs.
Following her MBA from American University, Moyo worked at the World Bank from May 1993 to September 1995. She was a consultant in the bank's Europe and Central Asia department and the Africa department, and co-authored the World Bank's annual World Development Report.
After pursuing her MPA and PhD degrees at Harvard and Oxford, Moyo joined Goldman Sachs as a research economist and strategist in 2001. She was at the company until November 2008, working mainly in debt capital markets, hedge funds coverage, and global macroeconomics. Part of her tenure at Goldman Sachs was spent advising developing countries on the issuing of bonds on the international market. She was also Head of Economic Research and Strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Board memberships.
After leaving Goldman Sachs, Moyo joined the board of directors of the international brewer SABMiller in 2009. She was chairman of the company's Corporate Accountability and Risk Assurance Committee (CARAC), which oversees the entire company's responsibilities in relation to corporate accountability, including sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, corporate social investment, and ethical commercial behavior. In 2010 Moyo joined the board of directors of Barclays Bank. She served on three of the board's committees: the Audit Committee; the Conduct, Operational and Reputational Risk Committee; and the Financial Risk Committee. In 2011 she joined the board of directors of the international mining company Barrick Gold. She served on the board's Audit Committee; Corporate Governance and Nomination Committee; and Corporate Responsibility Committee. In 2015 Moyo joined the board of directors of data storage company Seagate Technology. She served on the board's Audit and Finance Committees.
On October 11, 2016, she joined the board of Chevron Corporation. She sits on the board's Audit committee.
Moyo is a former board member of the charity Lundin for Africa, and a former patron of Absolute Return for Kids (ARK). She is also a former board member of Room to Read. In August 2018 she was elected to the board of 3M Company. She sits on the board’s Audit committee and the Finance committee.
Writing and public speaking.
Moyo's first book, "Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa", was published in early 2009 and was a "New York Times" bestseller. "Dead Aid" catapulted Moyo into the public eye and made her a sought-after speaker, pundit, and author. In 2009 she was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, one of "TIME"s 100, and one of Oprah Winfrey's "20 remarkable visionaries".
The book consolidated her career of traveling worldwide investigating and analyzing economic conditions and writing about her conclusions. By 2015 she had travelled to more than 65 countries, examining the political, economic, and financial workings of emerging economies. She became a regular columnist and contributor to many financial networks and multinational business publications, as well as a speaker at conferences and other venues worldwide. She has written and lectured on topics ranging from global markets, the impact of geopolitics on the economy, the future of the job market, the outlook for growth in China, and the past and future paths of interest rates.
Moyo's second book, "How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead", was published in January 2011 and was also a "New York Times" bestseller. Her third book, "Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World", was published in June 2012 and was also a "New York Times" bestseller.
Moyo is a member of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Global Economic Imbalances, and spoke at the 2005 annual WEF conference in Davos. In 2009 she spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Enterprise Institute, and was one of the two debaters on the winning side of the 2009 Munk Debate, where the subject was foreign aid. She was a participant at the annual Bilderberg Conference in 2010, while in 2011 she spoke at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In 2013 she was a participant at the U.S. Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, spoke at the Aspen Institute and the Ambrosetti Forum. She spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2020 in Davos. She is also a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2013.
Publications.
Books.
"Dead Aid".
Moyo's first book, "Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa" (2009), argues that government-to-government foreign aid has harmed Africa and should be phased out. In the book she stated that in the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Then she questions if anything has changed. It became a "New York Times" bestseller, and has been published in Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch.
The "Financial Times" summarized the book's argument, stating "Limitless development assistance to African governments, [Moyo] argues, has fostered dependency, encouraged corruption and ultimately perpetuated poor governance and poverty." The book suggests that official development assistance (ODA), as opposed to humanitarian aid, perpetuates the cycle of poverty and hinders economic growth in Africa. The book offers developing countries proposals for financing development instead of relying on foreign government-to-government aid. Harvard professor and historian Niall Ferguson wrote the foreword to "Dead Aid". Rwandan president Paul Kagame wrote that ""Dead Aid" has given us an accurate evaluation of the aid culture today."
In a review of the book, economist Paul Collier stated, "Aid is not a very potent instrument for enhancing either security or accountability. Our obsession with it has detracted from the more important ways in which we can promote development: peacekeeping, security guarantees, trade privileges, and governance." The pro-aid organization ONE Campaign disagreed with the book, stating that it calls to "cut-off all aid". Moyo has pointed out in a number of interviews that this is a misrepresentation of her ideas and that she is not criticizing humanitarian aid, and the "Financial Times" noted that ONE's campaign "at least partially backfired". The economist Jeffrey Sachs said more foreign aid is needed to improve conditions for Africa, but Moyo pointed out that when Sachs was her lecturer at Harvard it was he himself who taught that "the path to long-term development would only be achieved through private sector involvement and free market solutions".
In a 2013 interview Bill Gates was asked for his views on "Dead Aid"s illustration that aid to African governments has not alleviated poverty but has instead kept the African economy crippled rather than supporting sustainable African business. He claimed to have read the book and stated "books like that – they're promoting evil". Responding on her website, Moyo stated "To cast aside the arguments I raised in "Dead Aid" at a time when we have witnessed the transformative economic success of countries like China, Brazil and India, belittles my experiences, and those of hundreds of millions of Africans".
"How the West Was Lost".
Moyo's second book, "How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead" (2010), gives an account of the decline of the economic supremacy of the West over the past 50 years, and posits that the world's most advanced economies are squandering their economic lead. In her opinion, Moyo examines how America's flawed decisions and blinkered policy choices around capital, labor, and technology have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is poised to tip in favor of the emerging world.
The book became a "New York Times" bestseller, debuting at No. 6. It also debuted at No. 4 in "The Washington Post", and No. 2 in "The Wall Street Journal"s and Nielsen BookScan's business bestsellers.
In a review, Paul Collier stated that "her diagnosis of the recent disasters in financial markets is succinct and sophisticated", and "I applaud her brave alarum against our economic and social complacency: her core concerns are sufficiently close to painful truths to warrant our attention." Dominic Lawson wrote in "The Sunday Times", "This argument … can rarely have been made more concisely... Moyo is a very serious lady indeed." "The Guardian" stated, ""How the West Was Lost" is more interesting, wider in scale and more important than "Dead Aid"."
In contrast, Alan Beattie of the "Financial Times" wrote, "The challenges it identifies are for the most part real, if not original. But the huge flaws of the emerging economies are ignored." "The Economist" said "these arguments need much better supporting material than the book provides".
"Winner Take All".
Moyo's third book, "Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World" (2012), examines the commodity dynamics that the world will face over the next several decades, according to Moyo. In particular, it explores the implications of China's rush for natural resources across all regions of the world. Noting that the scale of China's resource campaign for hard commodities (metals and minerals) and soft commodities (timber and food) is one of the largest in history, Moyo presents her research and conclusions concerning the financial and geopolitical implications of a world of diminishing resources. "Winner Take All" continues where "How the West Was Lost" left off, and Moyo argues that China is already well on the way to gaining the upper hand in world economic dominance.
"Winner Take All" became a "New York Times" bestseller, debuting at No. 13, as well as entering "The Wall Street Journal"s and Nielsen BookScan's business bestsellers at No. 4 and the "Publishers Weekly" nonfiction bestseller list at No. 11.
A review in the "Financial Times" stated that "If Dambisa Moyo is right, the demands of the world's most populous state are bad news for the rest of us... One cannot accuse Moyo of failing to do her homework." "The Independent" concluded, "This is not an elegantly written book... But she does go to the heart of the issue: what China does over resources is profoundly important, and that deserves our attention."
"The Telegraph" commented "Moyo thinks [China’s impact on the global commodity market] will go on and on, powered by an unstoppable Chinese economy. Perhaps she is right, but the grounds for doubting whether the future will be a straight line from the past deserve a hearing." "The Guardian" wrote, "for all Moyo's insistence that a crisis is inevitable and that China will be the only gainer, we are in uncertain territory here."
"Edge of Chaos".
Moyo's fourth book, "Edge of Chaos", was released on April 19, 2018. It was covered in "Bloomberg" and "The Wall Street Journal". Garry Kasparov stated that he would be lecturing on the book with Moyo in May 2018 at the New York Public Library. On May 8, 2018, the book ranked 13 on the "New York Times" bestseller's list. In "Edge of Chaos", Moyo talks about why democracy is falling to deliver economic growth and how to fix it. She further talks about the short-term as a problem focus of governments and the public.
Additional publications and lectures.
Moyo is a frequent public speaker and columnist. She has written for international financial and economic journals and other periodicals and publications, and has lectured worldwide at some of the world's financial and economic summits, forums and conferences, as well as at numerous venues including TEDTalks and BBCs "HARDtalk". She is also a commentator on networks such as CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, BBC, and Fox Business. She was one of the seven judges of the 2015 "Financial Times" and McKinsey Best Business Book Award. Some of her recent articles are:
Personal life.
Moyo resides in New York City. She is an avid runner, and has run several marathons and half marathons. She travels extensively for board meetings, for lecturing, and personal appearances. In December 2020 she married billionaire Jared Smith, co-founder of Utah-based cloud computing company Qualtrics.


Daniel E. Noble

Daniel Earl Noble (October 4, 1901 – February 16, 1980)
was an American engineer, and executive vice chairman of the board of Motorola,
who is known for the design and installation of the nation's first statewide two-way FM radio
communications system for the Connecticut State Police.
He received a BS degree in engineering from the University of Connecticut.
He joined Motorola as director of research in 1940. His Link SCR-300 backpack transmitter and receiver, which he had reduced to about forty pounds, provided the first practical FM band transmission for military use. Introduced in 1943, and first used at the Battle of Anzio, the portable FM field radio allowed communication with less interference than the AM "walkie-talkie" systems that had been used earlier in World War II.
In 1949 he set up a solid state electronics research laboratory for Motorola in Phoenix, Arizona, which ultimately became the headquarters of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola, and ultimately Freescale Semiconductor as it separated from Motorola.
The IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award (previously named the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award) was established by the IEEE in 2000 for outstanding contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years.
Further reading.
Daniel Noble's contributions to Motorola are examined in Gart, Jason H. "Electronics and Aerospace Industry in Cold War Arizona, 1945-1968: Motorola, Hughes Aircraft, Goodyear Aircraft." Phd diss., Arizona State University, 2006.


Marty Stratton

Marty Stratton is an executive producer for id Software. After joining Id Software in 1997, Stratton became the Director of Business Development, overseeing the company's interests in European markets. In 2006, he became responsible for the overall development of "Quake Live", "Rage", and "Doom" with ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks respectively. Prior to his arrival at Id Software, Stratton previously worked for Adeline Software International and Activision in Quality Assurance on "Time Commando" and "".
During QuakeCon 2014, he presented the attendees with a first look at the 2016 reboot of "Doom", which he followed up again at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015.
Following Tim Willits' departure from id Software in July 2019, Stratton succeeded Willits as id's Studio Director.


Ashish Bhatia

Ashish Bhatia is a US-based Indian engineer with specializations in mobile security and social media, who developed Google's predictive response generation system. He is also an angel investor and advocate for startups.
Education.
Bhatia earned a bachelor's degree in engineering in 2009 and a master's degree in computer architecture in 2011, both from IIT Kanpur.
Career.
He worked at Morta Security, a startup that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2013. He has also worked as a software engineer at WhatsApp, on the Messenger team at Facebook, and the emerging markets team at Instagram.
At Google, Bhatia was a founder member in 2010 of Google's Android app scanning team, known as Google Bouncer, and developed the predictive response generation system for personal responses.
, he worked at a cryptocurrency startup while maintaining a GitHub repository on Android security. He has published on his blog threats such as the Facebook "April Fools Prank".
Angel investing and advising.
Since 2014, Bhatia has invested in a number of startups and served as an advisor or technical advisor at companies including Elucidate, Joveo, Replai, Stylework, and Wemby.


Brian Fargo

Frank Brian Fargo (born December 15, 1962) is an American video game designer, producer, programmer and executive, and founder of Interplay Entertainment, inXile Entertainment and Robot Cache.
Biography.
Early life.
A descendant of the family that created the banking giants Wells Fargo and American Express, Fargo was born in Long Beach, California, and grew up in Whittier and Newport Beach. The only child of Frank Byron Fargo and Marie Curtis Fargo, he attended Corona del Mar High School, where he participated in track and field and developed a desire to create video games after his parents bought him an Apple II computer in 1977.
Brian Fargo wrote his first video game, "Labyrinth of Martagon", with his friend Michael Cranford while still in high school. The team's first widely distributed game was the graphical text adventure "The Demon's Forge", which Brian self-published and guerilla marketed in 1981 (and was later re-released by Boone Corporation). In 1982,
"Softline Magazine" printed a letter from Fargo asking how On-Line Systems stored graphics in its graphic adventure "The Wizard and the Princess". During this time period he also wrote educational games for the "World Book Encyclopedia".
Interplay.
In 1983, Fargo founded Interplay Productions prior to landing his first contract in 1983 with Activision for "Mindshadow", a graphical text adventure game for the Apple II and Commodore 64. After the release of "Mindshadow", Fargo hired an old high school friend and started work to create a role-playing game "Bard's Tale" for the Apple II and C64 for a then-new publisher Electronic Arts. Fargo subsequently co-designed Interplay's early RPGs, including the critically acclaimed "Wasteland", where a character named Faran Brygo is a play on his name.
However, Interplay at the time was utilizing small development teams of one to three people to produce games for other companies to publish, which only allowed Interplay to break even at best. In 1988, Fargo decided to make the transition from a development house to a developer/publisher, adding the additional costs of production and marketing, with both the risk and possible reward of publishing successful games. The first title produced by Interplay in this era was the internally developed "Battle Chess", followed by Quicksilver Software's "Castles". The company was also experimenting at the time with new ideas and products such as "Neuromancer", a video game version of the novel by William Gibson.
By 1992, Interplay contracted with an old friend of Fargo's, Allen Adham, and his partner, Michael Morhaime, to create "RPM Racing". This was Adham and Morhaime's first contract to produce a game as Silicon & Synapse and was the one of the first of such finds for Fargo, who had an eye for recognizing talent in small development teams. Adham and Morhaime eventually changed the name of their company to Blizzard Entertainment, future developer of the "Warcraft", "Starcraft" and "Diablo" franchises.
Interplay continued to expand in the mid-1990s, adding licensed titles to its own intellectual properties such as "Stonekeep", by acquiring rights to the original "Star Trek" and creating a series of its adaptations. Fargo also continued to find talented small developers designing innovative games. One was Parallax Software, whose demo game eventually became the hit game "Descent". Parallax, later renamed Volition, was eventually bought by THQ. In 1994, Universal/MCA bought a 45% stake in Interplay, which later went public in 1998.
Interplay grew to over 600 employees at its zenith in the mid-1990s. One of the most successful groups within Interplay was formed during this period, Black Isle. Black Isle focused on role-playing games and eventually included the games of a new developer called BioWare, which was initially contracted by Interplay to make "Shattered Steel". The next game they developed for Interplay, through the Black Isle division, was "Baldur's Gate", which proved to be a big hit, followed by others, such as "Icewind Dale" and the critically acclaimed "". Black Isle's celebrated "Fallout", which took some inspiration from "Wasteland" but was unique in its own right, was a personal project of Fargo, who served as its executive producer and was involved in setting the tone and sensibilities of the game.
In 1996, the company expanded again, adding a division focusing on sports games called VR Sports and buying Shiny Entertainment. Fargo's goal in the acquisition of Shiny was to help Interplay transition into the console business, in addition to its successful PC game releases. That same year, "Computer Gaming World" ranked Fargo as the third most influential "industry player" of all time, as he "has shown both brilliant product vision and great business talents."
In 1998, Interplay filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of stock to fund future development and retire debt the company held. At the time, the market for IPOs had started to slow from the boom years of the early and mid-1990s, yet the need for capital drove Fargo to file the offering. Increased competition, less than stellar returns on Interplay’s sports division and the lack of console titles forced the company to seek additional funding two years later with an investment from Titus Software, a Paris-based game company. In 1999, the relationship between Fargo and majority shareholder Titus deteriorated, according to Fargo, due to a "different ideology of management". In 2000, Titus exercised a majority control of Interplay, and as a result, Fargo resigned his position with the company.
In addition to his work at Interplay, Fargo also formed an online entertainment company Engage! with partner SoftBank in 1996, and sat on the board of Virgin Europe in 1998.
InXile Entertainment.
After leaving Interplay, Fargo looked to find outlets for his creative drive and founded inXile Entertainment in 2002, a video game developer and publisher that includes many former Interplay employees. The name inXile sprang from a joke for his post-Interplay career: initially, Fargo gave himself the title of "leader-in-exile" at the company.
InXile Entertainment released a new "Bard's Tale" as one of its first titles, released by Vivendi Universal Games, but has found success in a new category of downloadable games, such as "Line Rider" and "Fantastic Contraption". The company also developed a major title for Bethesda Softworks, "".
In 2012, inspired by the success of "Double Fine Adventure"'s fan funded model, Fargo announced that he was going to attempt to fan-fund "Wasteland 2" using the webservice Kickstarter. The project's fundraising campaign reached its $900,000 funding goal in its second day and Fargo said hopes that all of his future projects involve Kickstarter as it "offers all the freedoms that a developer hopes for." The "Wasteland 2" Kickstarter campaign ended on April 17, 2012, raising a total of $2,933,252, making it the third highest crowd funded video game on Kickstarter to date, with an additional $107,152 in PayPal pledges.
On March 6, 2013, Fargo followed through on his promise to fund future projects through Kickstarter and launched "", described as "a story-driven CRPG crafted in the tradition of "Planescape: Torment" and set in the world of Monte Cook's Numenera." The project reached its goal of $900,000 in just six hours and went on to break the Kickstarter record for fastest project to reach $1 million. The previous record had been held by the Ouya video game console which reached $1 million in 8 hours 22 minutes; "Torment" reached this amount in less than seven hours.
In May 2015 Fargo revealed The Bard's Tale IV and his intentions to launch a Kickstarter for it on June 2, 2015. It is a direct continuation of that story from the previous The Bard's Tale games. The Kickstarter concluded on July 10, 2015 with a final pledge total of $1,519,681 USD and 33,741 backers.
In March 2017, Fargo had announced his plans to retire from inXile following the release of "Wasteland 3". However, in November 2018, Microsoft Studios announced their intention to buy inXile and make the studio a subsidiary. Because this would provide the studio with significantly more resources, Fargo stated he no longer plans to retire but instead will continue to lead the company.
Robot Cache.
Fargo announced the founding of Robot Cache, a new digital games storefront for personal computer games expected to go live in Q2 2018. Robot Cache will deliver games via blockchains which can be decrypted or re-encrypted through the service; this will effectively allow players to buy and sell digital games without publishers fearing that the original owner can retain a copy after selling. This allows the service to ensure a higher percentage of each game sale goes back to the publisher; publishers are set to receive 95% of original game sales, and 70% of used game sales. While the site will accept normal forms of payment, it will also use a new cryptocurrency called Iron, which users will receive when reselling games and can be applied towards the purchase of new or used games.
Others.
Fargo was a founder member of the board of advisors for Fig, a mixed investment/crowdfunding platform, since its launch in December 2015. As part of his involvement, he used Fig to crowdfund development of "Wasteland 3". With inXile's purchase by Microsoft Studios, Fargo plans to remain on the board to help determine which games that Fig should support, but otherwise does not plan to use Fig for funding.


Jason Baumgartner

Jason Baumgartner, from the IBM Corporation, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to formal hardware verification and its application".


Liu Qing (businesswoman)

Liu Qing (, born 1978 in Beijing) or Jean Liu, is a Chinese business executive. Liu is the President of Didi Chuxing ("DiDi", formerly known as Didi Duache and Didi Kuaidi), China's largest mobile transportation platform. She worked at Goldman Sachs Asia for 12 years, becoming a managing director in 2012, before switching to Didi Dache serving as its chief operating officer in July 2014.
After joining Didi Dache, she led the strategic merger between Didi Dache and its main competitor Kuaidi Dache which then created the car hailing company named Didi Kuaidi (later rebranded as Didi Chuxing) in 2015.
In 2017, Liu was included on the annual "Time" 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Early life and education.
Liu was born in 1978 in Beijing. She is the daughter of Chinese businessman and Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi, and the granddaughter of Liu Gushu, a senior executive banker at the Bank of China. She received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Peking University, and a master's degree in Computer Science at Harvard University. She received an honorary Doctor of Commercial Science from New York University.
Personal life.
Liu currently lives in Beijing with her family. In October 2015, Liu announced internally that she was being treated for breast cancer at the age of 37. In early December 2015, she posted on her Weibo that she would return to work by the end of December after a two-month treatment. According to DiDi, she is now fine and "has been in all-in mode for quite some time".
After being named one of the "50 Most Powerful Moms of 2016" by "Working Mother", Liu spoke about how she balanced working for DiDi with her relationship with her three kids.


Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis

Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis is the British Museum's Curator of Middle Eastern coins. She is Joint Director of the International Parthian Coin Project, The Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum (SNP), and Joint Editor of the SNP series.
Curtis is the honorary director of the . She is married to John Curtis, CEO of the Iran Heritage Foundation and the British Museum Keeper of Special Middle East Projects.
Curtis has taken part in expert panels on In Our Time four times.


Brasseur

Brasseur is a French-language surname, meaning "brewer" and may refer to:
A family of French actors:
A family of Luxembourgian politicians:
Others:


Wonderfalls

Wonderfalls is an American comedy-drama television series created by Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller that was broadcast on the Fox television network in 2004.
The show centers on Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas), a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye is the reluctant participant in conversations with various animal figurines – a wax lion, brass monkey, stuffed bear, and mounted fish, among others – which direct her via oblique instructions to help people in need.
"TV Guide" included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
Cast and characters.
Main characters.
Jaye Tyler.
Caroline Dhavernas as Jaye Tyler – A 24-year-old graduate of Brown University, at the start of the series Jaye is discontentedly working as a sales clerk at Wonderfalls Gift Emporium and living in a trailer. She avoids her loving – and overbearing – family, whose successes she seems determined not to emulate, spending most of her time at The Barrel, a local bar at which her best friend, Mahandra, is a cocktail waitress.
Despite being extremely caustic and a deliberate underachiever, Jaye's life takes an odd turn when various muses, in the form of animal objects, begin talking to her and delivering cryptic instructions. At first uncooperative, Jaye eventually breaks down after they inflict on her various forms of passive coercion, such as keeping her awake all night by singing, and harassing her with their messages when she is around others, forcing her to accede in order to avoid appearing crazy.
Jaye's attempts to ignore or go against the messages often result in unexpected misfortunes, such as when Jaye's father is hit by a car. Jaye's guilt over the event leads to her following the muses' instructions throughout the rest of the episode, only to discover that her father's injury was, in fact, a blessing, as it led his doctors to discover a potentially life-threatening blood clot. As the series progresses, Jaye becomes more willing to follow the muses' instructions, although she fights them when they make her do things she doesn't like, such as driving Eric back into the arms of his wife.
Through the course of the series, Jaye undergoes a subtle, yet discernible personality shift, as the good deeds she unwillingly performs begin to affect the way she perceives the world around her.
Sharon Tyler.
Katie Finneran as Sharon Tyler – The eldest of the Tyler siblings, Sharon is an immigration lawyer and the most ambitious member of the family. Sharon constantly finds herself having to help Jaye – particularly when she has legal trouble – even though there is a strong degree of animosity between the sisters at the start of the series. To Jaye, Sharon is everything she doesn't want to be: goal- and career-oriented, constantly seeking their parents' approval, extremely high-strung, and apparently with little enjoyment of her life. Meanwhile, Jaye's constant pranks and somewhat callous disregard for her sister have made Sharon highly resentful.
In the first episode, when Jaye discovers Sharon's "big secret" (that she is a lesbian), they admit that despite their animosity they do love each other. Jaye not only keeps Sharon's secret from everyone else, she even helps her out on occasion when someone (particularly their parents) comes close to discovering the truth. In turn, despite great shows of reluctance, Sharon always helps Jaye when she needs it, and even comforts Jaye when she is in despair over Eric.
Eric Gotts.
Tyron Leitso as Eric Gotts – Jaye's love interest – is introduced in "Wax Lion" under unusual circumstances: Six days prior to the events of the pilot, Eric arrived in Niagara Falls for his honeymoon with his new wife, Heidi. Upon returning to their hotel suite one day, he discovered Heidi "servicing" a hotel bellman. Anguished, he retreated to The Barrel and sat and drank for 3 days straight, after which the owner offered him a bartending job.
Extremely sweet, thoughtful, and kind, Eric is the antithesis of Jaye's often-abrasive personality, although he seems intrigued by her brashness and convinced that she is not as uncaring as she claims to be. Although his interest in Jaye is reciprocated, his light flirtation is often rebuffed because of Jaye's fears that she is going crazy, his status as a married man, and Jaye's deeply rooted fear that she will hurt him. Toward the end of the series Eric's wife Heidi arrives in Niagara in an attempt to win back her husband. Despite having fallen in love with Jaye, her refusal to admit her feelings (caused by the warnings of the muses, rather than her own inclination) leads him to remarry Heidi and decide to leave Niagara.
In the final episode Jaye is held hostage by a bank robber at Wonderfalls; because of deep feelings for Jaye, Eric is able to interpret her coolness toward him as an indication that something is wrong and alerts the police. Eric's explanation of why his suspicions were aroused in an interview on the local news finally convinces Heidi that there is no hope for her marriage to Eric. At the end of the final episode, he returns from New Jersey to Niagara, having divorced Heidi. His explanation helps Jaye to understand that the muses' warnings regarding Eric were in order to allow him to come to terms with his relationship with Heidi and end things with her properly.
Aaron Tyler.
Lee Pace as Aaron Tyler – Jaye's brother. Aaron is a PhD student of comparative religions, and the only one of the Tyler siblings still living at home. Aaron is the most easygoing of his siblings, exhibiting a laconic attitude toward his family and toward Mahandra's tension over their burgeoning relationship (although her refusal to acknowledge it doesn't seem to deflect his interest in her, or in legitimizing their relationship). Although they constantly bicker, it is clear that Aaron and Jaye are close (Jaye even asks Sharon at one point if she is angry that Jaye and Aaron like each other better than they like her).
Aaron is the only one during the series who learns of the full extent of Jaye's communications with the muses, a result of his worry over her strange behavior. Although he first believes that she is crazy, and despite being a self-proclaimed atheist, when things that the muses tell her start coming true Aaron begins indulging his sister's claims, even to the extent of helping her try to rid herself of all the animals that have talked to her. Eventually, Aaron reluctantly suffers a sort of existential crisis when, during a session with Dr. Ron, a cow creamer that had communicated with Jaye mysteriously seems to prove that they really have been talking to his sister. When Jaye asks him to gather all of the animals, he attempts to talk to them himself, exhibiting a desire to be proven wrong about his belief that there is no higher power.
Darrin Tyler.
William Sadler as Darrin Tyler, a highly respected physician, and Jaye, Sharon, and Aaron's father. Darrin is a loving father to his children, meddling particularly in Jaye's life, as he worries that she isn't doing anything to reach her potential. He bails both Jaye and Yvette out of jail in the episode "Crime Dog". When Jaye apologizes for making him compromise his political beliefs, he tells her that family comes first, and even expresses gratitude toward Jaye for hitting him with her car (because it's discovered that he had a potentially fatal blood clot in his leg). Like his wife, Darrin shows constant support to Jaye, even though he is clearly worried that she is not sharing with them what is going on with her.
Karen Tyler.
Diana Scarwid as Karen Tyler – the Tyler siblings' mother. Beautiful and very popular as a successful writer of bestselling travel book guides, Karen is friends with more of Jaye's high school classmates than Jaye herself was.
Karen's deep love and concern for her children often manifests as criticism and a lack of respect for their personal space – in the "Crime Dog" episode, Jaye challenges Aaron with the information that Karen goes through his things when he isn't home. It's clear that Karen is devoted to her family and particularly worried about her youngest daughter. Jaye even jokes that Karen had a tracking device installed in her at birth, thus never allowing Jaye to escape her family. Karen often questions whether Jaye's "problems" are as a result of her and Darrin's parenting, and clearly wants Jaye to open up to her. Often, Karen and Darrin's attempts to show their support result in annoying Jaye; despite that, Jaye recognizes that her mother not only loves her, but is capable of great insight and compassion – particularly toward the people she loves.
Mahandra McGinty.
Tracie Thoms as Mahandra McGinty, Jaye's best friend since childhood. Mahandra is a cocktail waitress at The Barrel and a co-worker of Eric's. Like Jaye, she has a sarcastic, dry sense of humor, and a vengeful streak – particularly when first encountering a despised former high school classmate in the episode "Pink Flamingos" or in "Barrel Bear" perceiving Jaye's attempts to help the rival of a woman Mahandra has aligned herself with, as a mockery of Mahandra's hometown pride.
Mahandra often functions as her friend's voice of reason, even to the extent of warning Jaye away from Eric, fearing that her friend will only break his heart. Despite her often blunt manner, she and Jaye have always considered her to be "the nice one" in their friendship. Later in the series Mahandra begins a secret relationship with Jaye's brother, Aaron, which she desperately tries to conceal from Jaye and the rest of the Tyler family. The relationship is "outed" in the episode "Caged Bird" when Jaye is taken hostage at the store. Fearing for her friend's safety, Mahandra hurries to Wonderfalls, but stops short of approaching Jaye during the aftermath. When Aaron sees her, she breaks down, and Jaye and the other Tylers see them kissing.
Recurring characters.
Heidi Gotts.
Jewel Staite as Heidi Socket-Gotts – Eric's estranged wife. Heidi makes her first full appearance in the series in the episode "Safety Canary" when she arrives in Niagara in an attempt to win Eric back. Although she presents to Eric a repentant and loving front, she deliberately manipulates him to suit her purposes – faking amnesia and slipping him male-enhancement drugs in an attempt to get him to sleep with her. She hates Jaye, perceiving her as a threat to her relationship with Eric.
Although Eric seems to recognize Heidi's manipulations, Jaye's inability to confess how she feels for him eventually drives him back to his wife. When Heidi sees Eric on a news report explaining how he knew to alert the police to the hostage situation in "Caged Bird", she begins to realize that although Eric might forgive her, he is truly in love with Jaye. On her way to tell Eric that she is giving up him and their marriage, Heidi collides with the van in which Jaye is being held hostage. This action causes the bank robber who has taken Jaye to be hit by an ambulance, saving Jaye's life. Although in the aftermath of the hostage events it appears that Eric and Heidi have reconciled and returned to New Jersey to begin their life together, Eric reveals later that he only went to help her get settled and to close the book on their marriage by getting a divorce.
Alec "Mouthbreather".
Neil Grayston as Alec "Mouthbreather" – Jaye's co-worker. A large part of Jaye's animosity toward Alec is that although he is still in high school, he is now her boss and doesn't hesitate to order her around. She also resents that he was promoted over her. Despite his attempts to be assertive over Jaye, she generally ignores him.
Gretchen Speck-Horowitz.
Chelan Simmons as Gretchen Speck-Horowitz, one of Jaye's former classmates. (She later makes an appearance on the TV series "Hannibal", in which Dhavernas co-stars as a different character.)
Production.
The series was an American production, filmed in Niagara Falls, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario (standing in for Niagara Falls, New York and environs), with several Canadian actors cast in lead roles (including the show's star). It was created by Bryan Fuller and Todd Holland and executive produced in partnership with Tim Minear. Originally scheduled to debut in the fall of 2003, its premiere was delayed until early 2004. When it finally debuted in March 2004 on the FOX network, "Wonderfalls" received positive reviews from critics, but had trouble attracting viewers. The pilot episode, "Wax Lion", received a higher Nielsen rating when it was repeated the Thursday after its premiere, and the show was moved from a Friday night time slot to Thursday. There was little notice or promotion of the time change, and FOX subsequently canceled the show after airing the fourth episode. A fifth episode was advertised but never aired.
Despite its cancellation "Wonderfalls" developed a loyal fan base. A campaign spearheaded by fans (and an accompanying website) was launched, and several members of the cast and crew visited the site and encouraged the grassroots support.
Immediately after the show's cancellation, its producers attempted to interest other networks, including The WB, in picking up the series and some episodes were shown in theatres in Los Angeles during the summer of 2004 in order to raise support for the series.
Planned episodes.
Although the show's creators had intended for the 13 episodes of "Wonderfalls" to tell a standalone story, they discussed plans for second and third seasons in an interview and episode commentaries featured on the 2005 DVD release of the series. Among the projected storylines mentioned on the DVD:
Episodes.
Fox aired the first four episodes out of sequence, although the episodes were produced in a different order than was intended for broadcast. The order below is how they are presented on the DVD release.
There is an alternate version of the first episode "Wax Lion". It features Kerry Washington playing Mahandra and Adam Scott playing Aaron. On the DVD commentary, the creators state that both actors had to be replaced because they could not commit to future episodes. The alternate version omits Thomas telling Jaye at the end that he is going to marry the nurse. The scene was added because the network wanted the Thomas subplot resolved, even though the creators disliked the scene. It also omits a scene where Jaye throws a quarter into the fountain before any muses start talking to her. The network supposedly wanted an impetus for why the muses started talking.
Broadcast and syndication.
All 13 episodes of "Wonderfalls" were aired to completion for the first time on Canada's VisionTV beginning in October 2004.
"Wonderfalls" was aired by the digital cable network Logo in the summer of 2005. The same summer, the British network Sky1 picked up "Wonderfalls" and aired the series to completion, though not in the original intended episode order.
The Museum of Television and Radio held a two-day screening of the entire series on January 29 and 30, 2005.
Home media release.
20th Century Fox released the complete series DVD set on February 1, 2005. The DVD set includes all 13 episodes; six commentary tracks by creators Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller, and actors Caroline Dhavernas and Katie Finneran on "Wax Lion", "Crime Dog", "Lovesick Ass", "Safety Canary", "Cocktail Bunny" (with Scotch Ellis Loring) and "Caged Bird"; a behind-the-scenes documentary, an examination of the show's visual effects, and one of two music videos produced for the theme song, "I Wonder Why the Wonderfalls" by Andy Partridge.


David Trujillo

David Trujillo (born c. 1976) is an American businessman. He is a partner and principal of the private equity firm TPG Capital, and a member of the board of directors of many companies, including Uber.
Early life.
Trujillo was born circa 1976. His parents were immigrants from Colombia. He grew up in suburban Chicago.
Trujillo graduated from Yale University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Economics, and he earned a master in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Career.
Trujillo began his career as an analyst for Merrill Lynch. He was vice president of GTCR from 1998 to 2005. He joined the private equity firm TPG Capital in 2006, where he became a partner and principal. He focuses on investment in the technology industry.
Trujillo serves on the board of directors of Univision, Cirque du Soleil, the RCN Corporation, Vice Media, and the Creative Artists Agency. He succeeded David Bonderman as a director of Uber in June 2017.


Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna (born 1962) is an Indian-American business executive serving as Chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman & CEO in January 2021. Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions. He was a principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the Company’s history.
Early life.
Krishna was born in West Godavari, India. His father, Major General Vinod Krishna, was an army officer who worked for the Indian Army and his mother, Aarathi Krishna, worked for the welfare of Army widows.
Education.
He completed schooling in Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, before receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1985. He subsequently moved to the United States to earn a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991. He is the recipient of distinguished alumni awards from both IIT, Kanpur and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Career.
Professional Career.
Krishna joined IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and continued in Watson Research for 18 years till 2009. Next he held General Manager role in Information management software and systems and technology group of IBM. In 2015, he was promoted to senior vice president of IBM Research. He later became senior vice president of IBM's cloud and cognitive software division.
He also led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain. He was a driving force behind IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, which closed in July 2019.
He was appointed IBM's CEO in January 2020, effective April 6, 2020, succeeding Ginni Rometty, who had served as CEO since 2012. He joined Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen, and Sundar Pichai as an Indian CEO of a major United States technology company.
Research.
He has co-authored dozens of patents, has been the editor of IEEE and ACM journals, and has published extensively in technical journals.


Steve Lawrence (computer scientist)

Steve Lawrence is an Australian computer scientist. He was among the group at NEC Research which was responsible for the creation of the Search Engine/Digital Library CiteSeer. He was an employee at Google. He is currently a co-founder & CTO at Xoo.
Lawrence received Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Engineering degrees from Queensland University of Technology in Australia, and his PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia.
He became a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Institute.
He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Google where he developed Google Desktop.
Lawrence's professional service includes being program committee co-chair for WWW 2003, program committee vice chair for WWW 2002, co-chair for workshops at AAAI and WWW, a program committee member for conferences including WWW, CIKM, and NIPS, and a reviewer for many journals including "Science" and "Nature".
Lawrence's research interests include information retrieval, digital libraries, and machine learning. He has published over 50 papers in these areas, including articles in "Science", "Nature", "CACM", and "IEEE Computer". He has been interviewed by over 100 news organizations including the "New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", "Washington Post", Reuters, Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and NPR. Hundreds of articles about his research have appeared worldwide in over 10 different languages.


Transearch International

Transearch Innternational (stylized TRANSEARCH International) an executive search network organisations. Headquartered in Europe, they have representation in The Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. "Executive Recruiter News" (ERN) currently rates the firm as the 10th largest global executive search firm. The firm is organized in partner offices by market expertise, business function and geographic location.
History.
Transearch International was founded on the April 2, 1982. with 6 offices and 20 consultants. The network quickly grew to 25 offices in 1989 and in 1990 was ranked as the 10th largest executive search firm (in terms of revenue) globally by the "Executive Recruiter News" (ERN). In 1998, the network had 68 offices in 40 countries and was the second largest network worldwide in terms of office representation. When the dot com bubble burst in 2001, most executive search firms faced a decline in demand for executive search services which lasted until about 2003-2004 (depending on the location and the sector of specialisation). In 2006 Transearch showed a 28.6% growth, almost 10% higher than the average rate of growth for the executive search industry. .


Target benefit plan

A target benefit plan is a type of pension plan that is similar to a defined contribution plan in that it involves fixed contributions, or a fixed range of contributions, which are set independently of a plan's funded position. Benefits are based on affordability projections. Plan members share plan risk through adjustments to their benefits.
A key element of the target benefit model is the existence of pre-determined guidelines linking benefits to funds available in the plan. Benefits and contributions are linked in a way that does not exist with traditional defined benefit or defined contribution plans.
Description.
Target benefit plans are similar to defined benefit plans in that the annual contribution is determined by a formula to calculate the amount needed each year to accumulate (at an assumed interest rate) a fund sufficient to pay a projected retirement benefit, the target benefit, to each participant upon reaching retirement. It is similar to a defined contribution plan in that the plan does not guarantee any benefit will be paid. The plan's only obligation is to pay whatever benefit can be provided by the amount in the contributor's account. The actual earnings on the individual accounts may differ from the estimated earnings used in the assumptions and the investment performance of that account through the years.
Advantages.
For pension plan sponsors, target benefits plan provide more flexibility than traditional defined benefit or defined contribution plans. Defined benefit plans provide a high degree of benefit certainty for members, but for plan sponsors contribution rates are more uncertain and funding costs can be high. Defined benefit plans can also contribute to intergeneration inequality, as retired members continue to receive benefits, whether or not those benefits were adequately pre-funded. The reverse is true for defined contribution plans where the contribution certainty comes at the cost of complete benefit uncertainty.
Canada.
The target benefit model is growing in Canada. Only the province of New Brunswick has the full legislative structure required to operate target benefit plans, which in that province are called shared-risk pension plans. Several other provinces including Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Alberta have introduced legislation allowing for target benefit plans, but are waiting for the establishment of a regulatory regime that would outline the specific rules governing this type of pension plan.
In 2016, Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau introduced Bill C-27, a new piece of federal legislation that enables Crown corporations and federal private-sector employers to establish target-benefit plans. Major Canadian unions expressed their opposition to the legislation on the grounds that it would undermine the worker security of defined-benefit plans, contrary to the government's election commitments to strengthen retirement security. The bill later became controversial because it became known that Morneau still had substantial holdings in Morneau Shapell, which he had led in his prior career. While leading Morneau Shapell, Morneau had advocated for such plans, and the firm had worked with the government of New Brunswick to establish target-benefit plans and stood to gain from similar consulting work under the legislation.