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List Of California Institute Of Technology Trustees
{{Short description, none The list of California Institute of Technology trustees includes notable trustees of the California Institute of Technology. The current chair of the board of trustees is Dr. David Li Lee (PhD '74). List of current trustees The official board of trustees site listed the following trustees. (The list was dated November 8, 2006, and consulted March 12, 2007.) (Regular) Trustees * Ambassador Barbara M. Barrett * Brigitte M. Bren, Esq. * John E. Bryson — former U.S. Secretary of Commerce * Dr. Milton M. Chang — Managing Director, Incubic Venture Capital * John S. Chen - CEO, Blackberry, Inc. * Wenchi Chen - President and CEO, VLA Technologies, Inc. * Dr. Peggy T. Cherng - Co-chairman, Panda Restaurant Group * Robert B. Chess — Chairman, Nektar Therapeutics * David T. Dreier - Chairman, Annenberg-Dreier Commission * Lounette M. Dyer, Ph.D. - entrepreneur * Joshua S. Friedman - co-founder, Canyon Partners, LLC * William T. Gross — chairman and ...
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California Institute Of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasionally referred to as "CIT", most notably in its alma mater, but this is uncommon. is a private research university in Pasadena, California. Caltech is ranked among the best and most selective academic institutions in the world, and with an enrollment of approximately 2400 students (acceptance rate of only 5.7%), it is one of the world's most selective universities. The university is known for its strength in science and engineering, and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States which is primarily devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences. The institution was founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891 and began attracting influential scientists such as George Ellery H ...
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Peter Norton
Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. He is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name and portrait. Norton sold his software business to Symantec Corporation in 1990. Early life Norton was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and raised in Seattle. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, graduating in 1965. Before he became involved with microcomputers, he spent a dozen years working on mainframes and minicomputers for companies including Boeing and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His earliest low-level system utilities were designed to allow mainframe programmers access to a block of RAM that IBM normally reserved for diagnostics. Career Utility software When the IBM PC made its debut in 1981, Norton was among the first to buy one. After he was laid off during an aerospace industry cutback, he took up microcomputer programming to make ends meet. One day he accidentally deleted ...
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Morrison & Foerster
Morrison & Foerster LLP (also known as MoFo) is an American multinational law firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, with 17 offices located throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. The firm has over 1,000 lawyers who advise clients across a range of industries and practices, including intellectual property, patent litigation, corporate/ M&A, business restructuring, and securities. History In 1883, Alexander Francis Morrison (1856–1921), an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley and Hastings College of the Law, founded the firm in San Francisco under the name O’Brien & Morrison.O’Hara, Eileen, et al. (2006). Morrison & Foerster LLP: The Evolution of a Law Firm. RR Donnelly. pp. 5 His aim was to practice "principally in the line of corporation business."McAfee, David (July 21, 2014)California Powerhouse: Morrison & Foerster Law360. Retrieved November 18, 2015. In 1891, Morrison formed a partnership with Constantine E.A. Foerster (1860–1898). ...
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Shirley Hufstedler
Shirley Ann Mount Hufstedler (August 24, 1925 – March 30, 2016) was an American attorney and judge who served as the first United States secretary of education from 1979 to 1981. She previously served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1968 to 1979. At the time of her presidential cabinet appointment under President Jimmy Carter, she was the highest ranking-woman in the federal judiciary of the United States. Early life and education Hufstedler was born Shirley Ann Mount on August 24, 1925, in Denver, Colorado. Her mother's side of the family emigrated to the United States from Germany and were pioneers in Missouri. Hufstedler's father worked in construction and during the Great Depression the family had to move frequently so he could find work. As a result, she frequently changed schools and towns starting in the second grade. As a child, she lived in New Mexico, Montana, California, and Wyoming. A friend of her fat ...
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Thomas Everhart
Thomas Eugene Everhart FREng (born February 15, 1932, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American educator and physicist. His area of expertise is the physics of electron beams. Together with Richard F. M. Thornley he designed the Everhart–Thornley detector. These detectors are still in use in scanning electron microscopes, even though the first such detector was made available as early as 1956. Everhart was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 for contributions to the electron optics of the scanning electron microscope and to its use in electronics and biology. He was appointed an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1990. He served as chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1984 to 1987 and as the president of the California Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1997. Early life and education Everhart's parents were William E. Everhart and Elizabeth A. West. Everhart received his A.B. in physics from H ...
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Orbital Sciences Corporation
Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and medium- class space and launch vehicle systems for commercial, military and other government customers. In 2014, Orbital merged with Alliant Techsystems to create a new company called Orbital ATK, Inc., which in turn was purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2018. The remnants of the former Orbital Sciences Corporation today are a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, known as Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems. Orbital was headquartered in Dulles, Virginia and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol ORB. Orbital's primary products were satellites and launch vehicles, including low Earth orbit (LEO), geosynchronous Earth orbit and planetary spacecraft for communications, remote sensing, scientific and defense missions; ground- and air-launched launch vehicles that delivered satellites into orbit; missile d ...
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TCW Group
TCW Group is an asset management firm based in Los Angeles, California. History Founded by Robert Addison Day in 1971 and headquartered in Los Angeles, TCW manages a broad range of investment products. The TCW Group was originally known as Trust Company of the West. TCW clients include many of the largest corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions, endowments and foundations in the U.S., as well as foreign investors and high-net-worth individuals. In 2001, Société Générale (SocGen) acquired a controlling interest in The TCW Group. On February 24, 2010, TCW announced the completion of its acquisition of Metropolitan West Asset Management LLC (MetWest), a leading fixed income investment management firm. In February 2013, TCW management and alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group acquired TCW Group from Société Générale. As a result of the transaction, TCW management and employees increased their ownership in the firm to approximately 40% on a fully di ...
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Marc Stern
Marc Stern is an American attorney, business executive and philanthropist. He serves as the Chairman of the TCW Group, an asset management financial institution based in Los Angeles, California. He also owns minority stakes in Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers and the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks. Marc serves as the Chairman of the Los Angeles Opera. Early life Marc Irwin Stern was born to a Jewish family in Vineland, New Jersey, the son of Sylvia (née Goodman) and Albert B. Stern.The Daily Journal: "Sylvia Stern Obituary"
September 9, 2013
He graduated from the Dickinson College in
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James F
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Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the most prestigious and highly ranked academic institutions in the world. Founded in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. MIT is one of three private land grant universities in the United States, the others being Cornell University and Tuskegee University. The institute has an urban campus that extends more than a mile (1.6 km) alongside the Charles River, and encompasses a number of major off-campus facilities such as the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Bates Center, and the Haystack Observatory, as well as affiliated laboratories such as the Broad and Whitehead Institutes. , 98 ...
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