STC.UNM Elects New Board Members: Mondragon and Stichman
Longtime economic development and technology leaders Fred Mondragon and John Stichman appointed to STC.UNM boardAlbuquerque, NM, September 11, 2007 - STC.UNM is pleased to announce the election of two new Board members to STC's Board of Directors.
Mr. Fred Mondragon is the Secretary for Economic Development for the state of New Mexico (EDD) and Mr. John Stichman is Executive Vice President and Deputy Laboratory Director of Sandia National Laboratories.
STC President & CEO Lisa Kuuttila stated that "We are very pleased with the addition of two outstanding individuals to the STC Board of Directors. They bring a wealth of experience to STC as well as important connections with STC's partners, the EDD and Sandia, in economic development for the state of New Mexico. I look forward to working with both of them."
Mr. Fred Mondragon
Mr. Mondragon was appointed by Governor Bill Richardson as Secretary for Economic Development in May 2007. Before coming to the New Mexico Economic Development Department, Mr. Mondragon was the Director of the Office of Economic Development for the city of Albuquerque, where he participated in the recruitment or expansion of Tesla Motors, Verizon Wireless, Eclipse Aviation, Advent Solar and Albuquerque Studios. He also developed initiatives to improve resources for local business expansion and to better assist existing small- and medium-sized businesses in Albuquerque. Under Mr. Mondragon's stewardship, the city’s film and international trade divisions have also thrived.
Other job experience includes over thirty years experience in the public and private sectors. He has been the Chief Executive Officer (administrator) of the University of New Mexico Hospital, Regional Administrator of a major hospital system in New Mexico, and the Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Albuquerque. Mr. Mondragon has also worked in the consulting and information technology field for two national system integration companies. As CEO of Fred Mondragon and Associates, he has been a consultant to several government and healthcare agencies.
Mr. Mondragon served three terms in the New Mexico House of Representatives. He was a member of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee and was the first Chairman of the Higher Education Subcommittee. During his tenure in the Legislature, he specialized in tax issues, health-care concerns, economic development and higher education. He has also been the Science Advisor to the Governor and served as founding Chairman of the Governor's Science and Technology Commission.
He received a B.S. in Biology and English Literature from UNM and a MBA in Healthcare Administration from George Washington University.
Dr. John H. Stichman
At Sandia since 1972, Dr. Stichman is responsible for lab operations, staff and facilities and for developing and implementing policy. He is also responsible for the overall stewardship of the technical capabilities at Sandia and for setting, promulgating, and maintaining standards for technical activities. He is also a member of the senior executive management councils at Sandia and has particular responsibilities for transformational activities in technology and in operations. He is responsible for the independent assessment of weapons' safety, security and reliability for Sandia.
Before his employment at Sandia, Dr. Stichman was Director of the New Mexico Weapon Systems Engineering Center, Director of the Surety Components and Instrumentation Center, and a member of the technical staff in the Data Systems Division of Hughes Aircraft Company. His responsibilities have included directing the development of telemetry systems, electronic/electromechanical components, safety/security subsystems in nuclear weapons and other defense-related systems. He has also managed development of electronic systems for weapon arming and firing, flight computers, real-time imaging radars and automatic target recognition. He participated in the development and commercialization of the first implantable, programmable insulin-delivery system for treatment of diabetes.
Dr. Stichman is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is registered as a professional engineer in the state of New Mexico. He is also a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the recipient of the "Award for Exemplary Civilian Service" from the Department of the Air Force.
Dr. Stichman received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. His published papers and conference presentations include the subjects of instrumentation and control, implantable medical electronics, and real-time optical computing. He holds two U.S. patents.
Crowdsourced R&D: Randy Burge Interviews Innocentive Founder Alpheus Bingham on crowdsourcing
The internet is profoundly changing the face of business, and the workings therein, in far-reaching ways that are almost beyond anyone's full comprehension.Such Net effects are often summarized as Web 2.0 to total up the sweeping shifts impacting nearly every corner of life, even something as abstract as corporate R&D. Of course, this people-power emerges out of the complexities of IT software and hardware that makes the Net possible.
Jeff Howe, a contributing editor with Wired magazine, noticed a next generation outsourcing phenomenon emerging from the internet's primordial soup – "the application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software."
Howe coined the term "crowdsourcing" to get his arms around the movement and wrote the introductory article under that name, The Rise of Crowdsourcing, for Wired in June 2006.
Crowdsourcing leverages the powers of the internet to tap expertise and solutions from the "crowd" of global citizens to benefit companies, organizations, communities, and societies-at-large. Howe's work has helped hone its definition and focus.
Innocentive, cofounded by Dr. Alpheus Bingham, a former R&D director at big-pharma Eli Lilly, is one company at the forefront of this crowdsourcing revolution that Howe covered in his article.
The Andover, Mass. company links and manages communications with 120,000 self-selecting crowdsourced innovators around the globe. These contributors submit possible solutions, for possible pay, to key R&D challenges facing Innocentive's R&D customers.
Howe went on to help organize Wired's partnership with Assignment Zero to conduct a first-ever scaled experiment to crowdsource journalism, for an ironic twist, on the crowdsourcing phenom itself.
NMITSA's president, Randy Burge participated in the Assignment Zero crowdsourced journalism project over the past six months with several of his contributions being published on Wired.com.
His interview with Alph Bingham, Crowdsourcing Diversity, was singled out by Howe in his Crowdsourcing blog as one of the best contributions to come from the exercise.
Burge, moonlights as a journalist, writing the Burge Eye View business column for the Albuquerque Tribune. One of his columns, Internet allows us to resource the crowd covered crowdsourcing and Assignment Zero.
Wired: Intel Launches a Digg to Rate Software Startups
Intel Launches a Digg to Rate Software StartupsBy Bryan Gardiner 10.08.07 | 9:00 PM
Excerpted from Wired Online
Intel is asking for your help to find the next Google.
In an effort to stay on top of the latest software trends and cool new startups, Intel on Monday made public a Digg-like voting site called CoolSW, for "cool software." The site will tap the geek public for the most promising new software companies worldwide.
"If you look at the great successes in software that have happened in the last few years, the so-called experts were very often wrong," says Steve Santamaria, director of Intel's software outreach group. "We ultimately have high hopes that the wisdom of crowds will find those long-tail independent software developers."
The CoolSW site joins a growing list of hive-mind projects looking for the next big thing.
Book publisher Simon & Schuster in June partnered with MediaPredict, which uses the "collective judgment" of readers to evaluate book proposals. And Dell's IdeaStorm uses features of social networks to solicit ideas for products and improvements.
At CoolSW, users can post information about new software companies that pique their interest, which the rest of the community then votes on.
Just like Digg, companies that receive the most votes get pushed to the site's front page, which highlights what community members consider hot. Intel's not divulging its "secret sauce," or how the company plans to track such companies and what it might do with those that garner the most recommendations.
Santamaria says Intel hopes to learn about independent software developers early and identify promising entrepreneurs. Intel Capital, Intel's investment division and one of the world's largest investors in companies, could also participate in the process, he says.
Currently, CoolSW's front page features a web service that automatically converts floor plans into 3-D buildings in Google Earth, as well as software that creates concert schedules based on artists in your iTunes library.
The CoolSW site started as an internal project used by company employees to call attention to their favorite software startups. Intel decided to put a public face on the site in the hope of garnering even more recommendations and expanding its global gaze.
"You have to remember that not all the emerging software companies are companies coming out of Silicon Valley," says Santamaria. "Software is happening globally."
If anything, the new site is an admission that even Intel's 90,000 employees worldwide have trouble tracking all the software companies sprouting up in Silicon Valley and the rest of the world.
Santamaria, director of the global software-enabling arm of Intel's Software and Solutions Group, admits that trying to keep tabs on it all -- the emerging technologies, the new scripting languages, the new tools and local software initiatives -- by meeting with individual companies was not the most efficient approach.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/10/intel_coolsw
Wired: Intel CTO Justin Rattner Talks Architecture and AMD Rivalry
Intel CTO Talks Architecture and AMD RivalryBy Bryan Gardiner 10.09.07 | 12:00 AM
Excerpted from Wired Online
Intel's chief technology officer, Justin Rattner, says the company has higher-end components on the shelf but won't release them until the market is ready.
Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner isn't buying AMD's claims that the chip titan swiped key technologies from AMD and applied them to its own forthcoming processor designs. In fact, he says, many of the changes the company has in store for new chip architectures like Nehalem and Larrabee have been in the works for years.
During Intel Developer Forum last month, Wired News sat down with Rattner to discuss why "enthusiasts" are so important to chipmakers, what he thinks about tri-core processors, and why sticking to older architectures helped Intel get a leg up on its rival for close to a year.
Wired News: Paul Otellini's IDF keynote theme focused on moving from the extreme into the mainstream -- aiming products at the high end and letting those features trickle down to the average consumer. Are you still using this MO in the multicore era, given the fact that quad-core still accounts for 2 percent of the market after close to a year?
Justin Rattner: I think it's pretty traditional in the computer industry that you tend to innovate at the high end, where developers and users are more willing to deal with the unknown. I spent a decade in high-performance computing, and the users of those machines wanted to be at the bleeding edge.
That was just the name of the game. We're more than willing to perform heroic acts of programming to eke out a little bit of performance. That's nothing new. You can go back into the history of computers and they always seem to start doing something incredibly demanding for a very narrow audience and then broaden out over time.
WN: I bring it up in the context of the generally accepted fact that there's a wide gap now between the capabilities that multicore hardware offers and the ability of the software community to capitalize on that.
Rattner: Well, did you ever think how long it took Microsoft to deliver a 32-bit operating system? We had (a 32-bit processors) something like a decade before Microsoft figured out what to do with it. I think that's reality.
If you think you can wait around and the software developers will suddenly come to you and say, "Wow, I have applications that really need four cores, could you just build one?" and you'd say "Oh, OK, we'll get right on it." That's never worked.
We've always had to put these architectural features in first, whether it be the number of cores or virtualization or a lot of security things. Eventually programmers discover these things and realize that they are actually pretty useful and they start building to the architecture.
But I think hardware always has to lead and, yeah, it's a big gamble. You build a $4 billion fab and you hope sometime soon somebody figures out how to use this thing.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/10/rattner
ATP To Schedule Competition For New Technology R&D Awards
Dateline NIST Washington: March 18, 2007The NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP) will conduct a new competition this fiscal year for cost-shared awards to support high-risk industrial R&D.
The ATP provides partial support to single companies or to industry-led joint ventures to accelerate the development of innovative technologies for broad national benefit through partnership with the private sector. ATP projects are selected in a competitive, peer-reviewed process.
Further details will be available when the competition is formally announced in the Federal Register this spring. Pproposals will not be accepted before that time. Notices will also be posted to http://www.atp.nist.gov and http://www.grants.gov. These notices will provide information about the specific ATP competition, including funding availability, selection criteria, guidelines for submitting proposals, proposal deadlines, dates and locations of Proposers Conferences, etc.
Additionally, all those on the ATP mailing list will receive a competition announcement and the ATP Proposal Preparation Kit.
Those interested may register for the ATP mailing list at http://www.atp.nist.gov/atp/atpform.htm.
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