ConSentry Networks' Vice President and Chief Scientist Named Entrepreneur of the Year.Mario Nemirovsky, PhD, Receives Top Award From Hispanic-Net MILPITAS, Calif. -- ConSentry Networks, a leading provider of secure LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. solutions, announced today that Vice President and Chief Scientist Mario Nemirovsky, PhD, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Hispanic-Net. Hispanic-Net is an organization created and chartered by Hispanic entrepreneurs, business executives, and senior professionals in high-tech, software, and Internet-related companies. Each year the organization awards outstanding Hispanic entrepreneurs for its Hispanic-Net Leaders Awards. The "Entrepreneur of the Year" award is given to a Hispanic innovator with a proven ability to recognize market opportunities and organize resources to successfully launch a new venture. Nemirovsky will be honored at this year's Hispanic-Net Awards taking place on November 18, 2006 at the Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. . Nemirovsky will be receiving an award for his work with ConSentry and is one of six honorees from companies including Google, Yahoo! Americas, and Stanford University. "It is an honor to be recognized by my peers for the Entrepreneur of the Year award," said Nemirovsky. "Leading the development of ConSentry's revolutionary security processors has been one of the most demanding and exciting projects I've ever worked on. The award validates ConSentry's focus on LAN security and the need for innovative technology to meet the challenges associated with securing the LAN." Nemirovsky is chief scientist for ConSentry Networks and is responsible for designing the company's stateful processors, currently featuring a 128-core architecture. He has done research in many areas of computer architecture, including simultaneous multithreading, high-performance architectures, and real-time and network processors. Prior to ConSentry, Nemirovsky founded XstreamLogic and architected its high-performance SMT (1) (Surface Mount Technology) See surface mount. (2) (Station ManagemenT) An FDDI network management protocol that provides direct management. Only one node requires the software. SMT - Station Management network processor. Before that, he was a chief architect at National Semiconductor and at Weitek. In 1985 he was a chief architect at Delco Electronics, General Motors (GM) where he architected a GM engine control processor. This heavily multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading real-time processor is still used in all GM cars today. Nemirovsky was one of the first to understand the power of multithreading Multitasking within a single program. It allows multiple streams of execution to take place concurrently within the same program, each stream processing a different transaction or message. , which he termed "dynamic multistreaming," and first published on this subject in Micro-24 in 1991. He subsequently published results on SMT in HICSS HICSS Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (in 1993 and 1994) and in PACT (in 1995). Nemirovsky received his PhD in ECE ECE Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE Economic Commission for Europe ECE Ecole Centrale d'Electronique (France) ECE Educational Credential Evaluators Inc ECE East Central Europe ECE Endothelin Converting Enzyme from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Santa Barbara in 1990 and was an adjunct professor there from 1991 to 1998. Nemirovsky holds 24 issued and 12 pending patents. About ConSentry Networks ConSentry Networks delivers comprehensive LAN security, enabling businesses to protect their corporate assets, ensure continuity of operations The degree or state of being continuous in the conduct of functions, tasks, or duties necessary to accomplish a military action or mission in carrying out the national military strategy. , and dramatically reduce the risk of security breaches. ConSentry enables this pervasive security while lowering IT's cost of operations through its flexible, high-performance platform powered by ground-breaking custom silicon and revolutionary LAN security software. Backed by blue-chip venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] that include Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, INVESCO Private Capital, and Sequoia Capital, ConSentry is headquartered in Milpitas, California. ConSentry Networks, the ConSentry Networks logo and LANShield are trademarks of ConSentry Networks Inc., for use in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective holders. |
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