Compaq Names Dr. Robert Iannucci Vice President of Corporate Research; Research Headquarters Moving to West Coast to Strengthen Ties with Silicon Valley.

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 1999--

Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) announced it has appointed Dr. Robert Iannucci as Vice President of Corporate Research and that the company is relocating its Corporate Research headquarters from Maynard, Mass. to Palo Alto, Calif., strengthening its link with Silicon Valley resources.

In this position, Dr. Iannucci will have overall responsibility for Corporate Research, including the Systems Research Center, Western Research Laboratory and Palo Alto Advanced Development group in Palo Alto, Calif., Cambridge Research Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., and Software Engineering Australia on the Gold Coast. He will report to Dr. Bill Strecker, Compaq's Senior Vice President of Technology and Corporate Development and Chief Technology Officer.

Dr. Iannucci has spent the last three-and-a-half years as Lab Director for Compaq's Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL), investigating scalable and mobile computing, vision-based human and scene sensing, speech interaction, computer-animated synthetic persona, intelligent information appliances, and the capture, coding, storage, indexing, retrieval, decoding and rendering of multimedia data. During his tenure, CRL developed AltaVista Photo and Media Finder -- applying human-centric computing to the problem of indexing multimedia data, thereby extending the reach of AltaVista beyond the world of text and into the world of audio and video.

"Dr. Iannucci's broad experience -- from that of computer scientist to entrepreneur -- and proven track record is extremely valuable to Compaq," said Bill Strecker, Senior Vice President, Technology and Corporate Development for Compaq. "As we expand our reach in the Silicon Valley, we anticipate that Dr. Iannucci will broaden the scope of research with business development and begin translating more of our technologies into actual products for Compaq.

Dr. Iannucci joined Digital Equipment Corporation from Exa Corporation, where he was a founder and served as Vice President of Engineering. Before that, he spent 14 years at IBM, where he was a Research Staff Member and Manager at the T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, as well as an Advisory Engineer with the Glendale Laboratory in Endicott, New York. He led the hardware development of the MIT Multiprocessor Emulation Facility while in residence at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.

Dr. Iannucci received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He also holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Youngstown State University. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM, the Audio Engineering Society, and Sigma Xi.

Corporate Research

Corporate Research is the center of Compaq's advanced technology. As a division of the company's Technology and Corporate Development Group (TCD), Corporate Research is staffed with leading computer scientists known throughout the world for their contributions to the science and practice of computing. Their role in Compaq is to invent the future by developing and demonstrating solutions that will enable Compaq's customers to better manage information -- from the planetary scale down to the very personal scale. Compaq Corporate Research is well known as the creator of AltaVista and Palo Alto Internet Exchange. Please see http://www.research.compaq.com.

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