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Elwyn Berlekamp is a professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has held a variety of positions since 1964, including professor and associate chairman of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. He has done groundbreaking research in game theory, algorithms and statistical information theory. He holds twelve different patents for products including the Bit Serial Reed-Solomon Encoders used by NASA. He sits on the editorial board at Theoretical Computer Science and has written five books.
Berlekamp has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berlekamp was also President of Cyclotomics (which became Kodak Berkeley Research) in the mid-1980s and is currently a board member for several corporations including Cylink and Space Computers. He earned his Ph.D. from M.I.T., where he presently sits on the Mathematics Department's academic review board.
Bob Burnett has more than thirty years' experience managing leading-edge technology projects. He was founding Vice President of Engineering for Cisco Systems, whose engineers he led in building the routers that made the Internet commercially viable. Burnett headed the first implementation of a complete COBOL compiler, and then the first commercial multiprocessor for Burroughs in the 1960s. He later managed the development of the first digital tester for VSLI chips at Fairchild and led the implementation team for Rolm/IBM's large scale digital branch exchange - yet another first. Burnett continues to work as an entrepreneur with for-profit and non-profit enterprises. He sits on the board of Xamplify. He is a graduate of Stanford University.
Elliott Fineman is CEO of Planet Biotechnology, a pharmaceutical company based in Mountain View, CA. He was a founder of biotechnology firm SuperGen, a producer of pharmaceutical therapies that combat life-threatening diseases. He holds both an M.S. and a J.D. and has practiced as a patent attorney.
Douglas Goldman is the founder, President and CEO of Certain Software, developers of technology for the multi-billion dollar event-planning industry. He also designed the user interface used by the Museum of the Diaspora in Israel to process their genealogical database. Before entering the software industry, Goldman was an emergency room physician at Marshal Hale and Mount Zion Memorial Hospitals in San Francisco, and served as director of the city's emergency medical services from 1993 to 1995. He holds an undergraduate degree from the U.C. Berkeley, and a medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.
David Hoffman is Associate Director at Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. He currently heads the Institute's Scientific Graphics Project, an effort co-sponsored by Berkeley Labs to model geometric and physical forms and surfaces with the aid of computers. In 1986, Hoffman co-founded the Center for Geometry Analysis Numerics and Graphics and won the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize in 1990. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the Universities of Warwick and Durham in England, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was a professor of Mathematics. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1973.
Alan Stein is Venture Partner for Weston Presidio Capital. An investment banker for more than 45 years, he has been General Partner at Goldman Sachs and Executive Director and Senior Managing Director at Montgomery Securities. From 1978 to 1980 he served as Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency for the State of California, and, from 1981 to 1982, as Associate Dean for Executive Education at the U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Stein sits on the Board of Directors of Cogito Media, Inc., a leading developer of educational software and of online educational services for instruction in the sciences. He is chairman of Forest Products International Exchange, a private e-commerce corporation. He is a graduate of Columbia College and received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.
