CMU -- Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, to speak on Nov 4

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Next week, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google will speak at CMU as part of the
Heinz School's/InSITeS Verizon Distinguished Lecture Series.

Date:  Monday, November 4
Time:  12:30 - 2:00
Place:  McConomy Auditorium
Free and open to the public.

The details:

Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of the Internet search and navigation
technology company Google, Inc., will give the Verizon Foundation
Distinguished Lecture Monday, November 4, at 12:30 p.m. in McConomy
Auditorium in the University Center on the Carnegie Mellon University
campus.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

An internationally recognized technologist and business leader, Schmidt was
appointed CEO of Google Inc. in March 2001. He was previously CEO of
Novell, Inc., where he led the company's strategic planning, management and
technology development (and remains chairman of the board). Schmidt is also
the former chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun
Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's
platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet
software strategy.
With the largest index of Web sites available on the World Wide Web and the
industry's leading search technology, Google.com is known as one of the
fastest and easiest ways to find relevant information on the Internet.
Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous
industry awards and citations, including Best Internet Innovation and
Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the
Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; and Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME
magazine.

The Verizon Foundation Distinguished Lecture series was established at
Carnegie Mellon in 1998 to bring experts in the telecommunications and
information technology industry to the university. The Verizon series
facilitates sharing ideas, discussing trends, exploring applications of
technology and investigating the effects of technology on the broader
society.

Schmidt's lecture is coordinated by Carnegie Mellon's Institute for the
Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS). The institute draws
on the expertise of about 60 Carnegie Mellon faculty from a variety of
disciplines, plus a national network of more than three dozen leading legal
thinkers, and fosters collaboration in research, curricular development,
policy analysis and public outreach projects aimed at addressing the
social, economic, political,
ethical, psychological, cultural and legal aspects of information
technology.

THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED BY A GRANT FROM THE VERIZON FOUNDATION.

For more information on the series, please contact Dorothy Bassett,
Executive Director of InSITeS at 84839.







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