Hugh Barnes, Won Kim Named to Interactive Silicon Technical Advisory Board.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2000 Interactive Silicon Inc., an Austin-based fabless semiconductor and software company, today announced that Hugh Barnes Hugh Barnes (born 1963) is a journalist and specialist on Russian matters. Born in London, he was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities. He covered the wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan for various newspapers in the UK and abroad. , retired vice president and chief technical officer of Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. , and Dr. Won Kim, founder and chief executive officer of Cyber Database Solutions, have joined its Technical Advisory Board. Interactive Silicon develops and markets technology that turbocharges the performance of servers and workstations. "Hugh and Won both have extensive experience as business managers and technology innovators," said Tom Dye, 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 Interactive Silicon. "We look forward to their advice and counsel as we develop the technology to enhance the performance and capabilities of network computing." Barnes joined Compaq in 1984 and held various senior management positions, last serving as Compaq's vice president and chief technical officer until his retirement in January 1997. Previously, he held executive engineering and operations positions at Mattel Electronics, Texas Instruments, and E. F. Johnson Company The E.F. Johnson Company is a two-way radio and electronics manufacturer founded by its namesake, Edgar. F. Johnson, in Waseca, MN, USA in 1923. History The company began as a mail order business, selling radio transmitting parts to amateurs and early radio . Barnes holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University Academics ISU is best known for its degree programs in science, engineering, and agriculture. ISU is also home of the world's first electronic digital computing device, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer. . He serves as a member of the board of directors and as an advisory board member for several early-stage technology companies. In 1996 Dr. Kim founded Cyber Database Solutions, a premier consulting and system integration service provider linking U.S. and Pacific-Asia corporations engaged in leading-edge information technology businesses. Previously, he founded and successfully managed UniSQL as chairman and CEO for six years. At UniSQL, Dr. Kim conceived and architected the first commercial object-relational database server and first commercial object-relational multi-database server, ushering in the era of object-relational database systems. Dr. Kim serves as chairman 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. SIGKDD SIGKDD Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining (ACM) , a society of professionals and students specializing in knowledge discovery in data and data mining. He is editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems, a scholarly journal for research scientists in the database systems field, and is editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, a newly launched scholarly journal on technical and social issues related to Internet technology. Dr. Kim holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, , and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific . He serves on the Technical Advisory Board of four corporations. About Interactive Silicon Inc. Founded in 1998, Interactive Silicon combines innovative hardware with state-of-the-art operating system software to create a unique parallel memory management system. Its product runs in conjunction with Windows 2000 and Linux, using patented technology to dramatically increase the performance of servers and workstations. |
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