Amdahl Launches SmartCard Technology Institute With Industry Experts Leading Education Sessions.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1999-- Smart Card Industry Leaders Dan Cunningham Dan Cunningam was an actor who made few screen appearances but was a noted professional stage actor, performing at Eichstätt. In 1955, he appeared in Laurence Olivier's Richard III. and Catherine Johnston to Deliver `Executive Insights' Program. The SmartCard Technology Institute (SCTI SCTI Stanford Center for Technology and Innovation SCTI Sodium Components Test Installation SCTI Southern California Transplantation Institute (and Liver Center) SCTI Small Component Test Installation ) will be launched tomorrow with an initiation program in Toronto, Canada. At the launch, Murray Johnston, President of the SCTI, will announce "a unique initiative that spans the smart card industry." Dan Cunningham and Catherine Johnston will join forces to deliver the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. `Executive Insights' program slated to begin in late March with sessions in Toronto, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Washington, D.C. and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Dan Cunningham is President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Potomac Systems & Technologies, a Potomac Maryland based consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a . Prior to forming PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there , he was President and CEO of the Smart Card Industry Association (SCIA SCIA Smart Card Industry Association SCIA South Central Industrial Association SCIA Semiconductor Industry Association SCIA Simultaneous Converging Instrument Approaches SCIA St. ). Before joining SCIA, he served as senior vice president, business development, at Phoenix Planning & Evaluation Ltd. and as president and CEO of Gemplus Card International Corporation. Catherine Johnston, who will provide an industry overview at the launch event, is President and CEO of the Advanced Card Technology Association of Canada. She co-authored Privacy Assessment Procedure for Smart, Optical and Other Advanced Cards with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. The SCTI organization comprises a partnership of leaders in the smart card industry. It provides leading-edge education for business leaders and smart card solution implementers, addressing strategies and multi-application smart card technologies with programs that focus on how to leverage new delivery channels and overcome business and technical barriers to convergence. The Institute's goal is to enable businesses and government agencies to invest in the explosive growth potential of the smart card market, forecasted to more than quadruple over the next few years. The Institute is the only organization of its kind that delivers year-round, fact-based learning targeting the explicit needs of smart card issuers. "This focus is definitely needed because the strategic decision for implementers and adopters lies not in which card technology to deploy, but in the selection and development of the application," notes Duncan Brown Duncan Brown was the bass player for British indie band Stereolab. He joined the band in 1993 and stayed until 1996, performing on each release from Space Age Batchelor Pad Music until Emperor Tomato Ketchup. , who will be the keynote speaker at the launch. Brown is Director, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , of Ovum Inc., and co-author of the 1Ovum report entitled, The Balance of Power: Uncertainty and Opportunity in the New Smart Card Market. Smart cards are similar in appearance and size to a credit card. They feature embedded chips with a microprocessor that allows users to access a variety of applications that can be stored on the card. "The value proposition for customers that can be realized through multi-application smart cards and partnering across industries is the number one opportunity impacting success in the new smart card market," says Johnston, the SCTI President. "Taking advantage of this potential is dependent upon business leaders understanding the benefits for customers, i.e. the card holders, and, as a result, being able to identify opportunities for their businesses as smart card issuers and application owners." About Amdahl Amdahl Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace with revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998. Amdahl provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Amdahl has over 25 years of experience with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. (R), Windows NT(R), and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) operating systems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with world class offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries. For the Year 2000 compliance status of this offering and any others, visit the Amdahl Year 2000 Web site at: www.amdahl.com/y2k Amdahl is a registered trademark of Amdahl Corporation. MVS is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively (except in Japan where such license is non-exclusive) through the Open Software Foundation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. NOTE TO EDITORS: Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at www.amdahl.com , the Amdahl Corporation home page. The Amdahl site provides current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing. Background information on the SmartCard Technology Institute is available at www.ascti.com. |
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