ADVISORY/Equator Executive to Present at Hoover Institution's National Security Forum.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY... for Wednesday (March 13) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Equator equator, imaginary great circle around the earth, everywhere equidistant from the two geographical poles and forming the base line from which latitude is reckoned. The equator, which measures c.24,902 mi (40,076 km), is designated as lat. 0°. Technologies Inc., the leading provider of video streaming See streaming video and video stream. and processing engines and platforms, announces that its Chief Technology Officer, John Setel O'Donnell, has been selected as a panelist at this year's National Security Forum by the Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President , March 12 - 13, 2002. O'Donnell will be participating in a session on "Enhancing Technological Innovation/Government Subsidization sub·si·dize tr.v. sub·si·dized, sub·si·diz·ing, sub·si·diz·es 1. To assist or support with a subsidy. 2. To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy. & Acquisition/Public-Private Sector Bridge." The Hoover Institution's National Security Forum has held conferences within the last three years on the Threat of Biological and Chemical Weapons and on the Transnational Dimension of Cyber Crime and Terrorism. The third Hoover National Security Forum conference, "Technology for Preventing Terrorism," will attempt to develop policy proposals and concrete initiatives for government and private sector consideration, designed to exploit this technological advantage for the purpose of preventing terrorist acts and related crimes. The conference will focus on three particularly important aspects of prevention programs: (1) advanced sensors for screening; (2) identification systems for recognition and tracking; and (3) data collection, analysis, and transmission. Richard Hearney of Business Executives for National Security will chair the speaking session, with a presentation by E. Floyd Kvamme Earl Floyd Kvamme (born 1938) is an American engineer, venture capitalist, and government advisor. Early life The son of Norwegian immigrant parents, Kvamme grew up in Northern California graduating from Jefferson High School of Daly City in 1955. of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and additional panel members M. Sam Araki of Security Technology Ventures and Gilman Louie of In-Q-Tel Inc.
Who: John Setel O'Donnell, Chief Technology Officer,
Equator Technologies Inc.
What: Hoover Institution's National Security Forum,
Conference on Technology for Preventing Terrorism
Topic: "Enhancing Technological Innovation/Government Subsidization &
Acquisition/Public-Private Sector Bridge"
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 from 10:30 am - 12:00
(Session Four)
Where: Stauffer Auditorium, Hoover Institution,
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
About Equator Technologies, Inc. Equator Technologies is the industry's choice for video streaming engines and platforms. The company's family of Broadband Signal Processor(TM) or BSP BSP Bromsulphalein, a dye used in the study of liver function. See also sulfobromophthalein clearance test. (TM) chips is a unique, fully functional, software-programmable system-on-a-chip solution designed for the development of platforms for demanding video applications -- from "Pixels to Packets." Equator's unmatched compiler technology delivers 100% C programming -- enabling the rapid introduction and field upgradeability of new applications and devices. With more than 120 customers, Equator offers time-to-revenue for consumer, business and industrial digital media communication markets including, head-ends, set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. , video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. , video security and imaging. Headquartered in Campbell, Calif., with additional offices worldwide, Equator is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. . For more information, visit www.equator.com. |
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