Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2006
Craig Mudge
As Managing Partner of Pacific Challenge, Craig Mudge brings his
operational experience (both in technology companies and world-class
research centers) to his work with both startups and established
companies. Clients include Citibank, Visa, Xerox, AMP Insurance,
CommerceNet, and AT&T Labs as well as over seventy startups through
his board work with venture firms. As director of the Computer
Science Lab at the legendary Xerox PARC in the mid nineties, he
nurtured the next generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, and other PARC
innovations. Earlier, he was a founder of Austek Microsystems, a
semiconductor company that achieved several important technology
breakthroughs, including the world's first single-chip cache. He was
a computer designer at DEC (now HP) in Boston and founded and led
micro-chip research at CSIRO. He co-authored "Computer Engineering"
with Gordon Bell, has published over sixty papers, and holds six
patents. Acquisitions of spinoffs and licensing deals from his labs
total $500 million. He has held faculty positions in computer
science at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University, and Flinders
University. Mudge holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an undergraduate
degree in mathematics, statistics, and economics from the ANU. His
formal management education occurred at the AGSM and Harvard
Business School.
Seminar:
An eco-system for nurturing startups - a
Silicon Valley View
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