General Magic Appoints Chief Technical Officer.Business/Technology Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) June 12, 2000 -General Magic, Inc. (Nasdaq:GMGC), the leading voice application service provider, today announced the appointment of Dr. Danny B. Lange to chief technical officer (CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. ) as part of a continuing effort to strengthen its management team. "Danny today is recognized in the industry as a leading proponent One who offers or proposes. A proponent is a person who comes forward with an a item or an idea. A proponent supports an issue or advocates a cause, such as a proponent of a will. PROPONENT, eccl. law. of the VoiceXML standard and as an expert in voice solutions. He is representative of the very high level of expertise we have at General Magic in delivering premier voice applications and services," said Steve Markman, chairman, chief executive officer and president of General Magic. "Danny has been instrumental in building the architecture for our industry-leading VoiceXML-based magicTalk(TM) architecture, and as CTO he will play a key role in forging strategic partnerships for General Magic in the voice application services See ASP and Web services. arena." Dr. Lange joined General Magic in 1997. His early work with General Magic resulted in the invention of voice agents, which monitor and act on Web content on behalf of a user, interacting with the user via voice. Currently, Dr. Lange is responsible for the high level architecture of General Magic's industry-leading magicTalk communications platform. MagicTalk enables rapid development and deployment of end-to-end voice solutions and is the platform adopted by General Motors' OnStar for their Virtual Advisor scheduled for deployment later this year. Dr. Lange is also widely known for his invention of the Java aglet, a lightweight mobile agent for the Java programming environment. In addition to his agent work, he has contributed in the areas of hypertext, object-oriented database See object database. (database) object-oriented database - (OODB) A system offering DBMS facilities in an object-oriented programming environment. Data is stored as objects and can be interpreted only using the methods specified by its class. modeling, and program visualization. He has presented his work at leading conferences, published articles in many journals and has co-authored a book on Java aglets For the shoelace part, see . Aglets is a java based mobile agent platform and library for building mobile agents based applications. An aglet is a Java agent which can autonomously and spontanously move from one host to another carrying a piece of code with . Prior to joining General Magic, Dr. Lange was a visiting scientist at IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Tokyo Research Laboratory from 1993-1997. He has also been a visiting researcher at Tokyo University and a consultant for Nissho Electronics in Tokyo. Dr. Lange holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, DTU) was founded in 1829 as the 'College of Advanced Technology' (Danish: Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt). . He is a member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, New York, www.acm.org) A membership organization founded in 1947 dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of information processing. In addition to awards and publications, ACM also maintains special interest groups (SIGs) in the computer field. and IEEE Computer Society (body) IEEE Computer Society - The society of the IEEE which publishes the journal "Computer". http://computer.org/. . About General Magic General Magic creates value for its customers through state-of-the-art voice solutions. General Magic offers years of expertise in combining language, personality, and logic to create a natural conversation between people and information. As a voice application service provider (Voice ASP), General Magic serves companies with high volumes of customer contacts who need cost-effective solutions that maintain the trust and loyalty of their customers. For more information about General Magic, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.generalmagic.com. General Magic and magicTalk are trademarks of General Magic, Inc., which may be registered in some jurisdictions. Other trademarks are owned by their respective companies. |
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