Technology. (Newsmakers).Arthur Laffer Noun 1. Arthur Laffer - United States economist who proposed the Laffer curve (born in 1940) Laffer has joined the board of Vizional, a Santa Monica-based software firm. Laffer, a former Reagan economic policy, advisory board member, will serve as the chair on the finance and audit committees. He is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economics research and financial 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 . Altnet has announced that Ron Lachman, co-founder of Sandpiper sandpiper, common name for some members of the large family Scolopacidae, small shore birds, including the snipe and the curlew. Sandpipers are wading birds with relatively long legs and long, slender bills for probing in the sand or mud for their prey—all Networks, has been named chief scientist, a new position. Lachman will provide strategic and technical guidance on Altnet's distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. initiatives. ValueClick Inc has named Scott Ray general manager of Mediaplex Inc. and AdWare Systems Inc., units of its technology division. Ray will be responsible for the overall management and growth of the units. |
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