[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: Bob Metcalfe lecture and webcast, Feb 11th

[Deborah Fairchild]

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>Lecture: It's easy to start a small company, it's hard to make a big one
>Date: Feb 11, 2005
>Location: MIT E51-325 or online at http://cmi.streamuk.com/11february
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>The next CMI Distinguished Lecture will take place at 11.30am Eastern 
>Standard Time on Friday 11 February 2005, when two very experienced 
>entrepreneurs will be giving their views on the significant challenges of 
>growing a start-up business into a larger company, and how to overcome the 
>barriers to growth.
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>Our speakers, Hermann Hauser and Bob Metcalfe are well-known and 
>successful entrepreneurs who both have experience of turning scientific 
>advances into real-world technology products, and have seen businesses 
>they founded grow into large organizations.
>Logistics
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>This Distinguished Lecture will be truly interactive: Hermann Hauser will 
>be speaking from a lecture theatre at the Judge Institute of Management in 
>Cambridge, while Bob Metcalfe will be talking from the MIT Sloan School of 
>Management. They, and the audiences in both locations, will meet by live 
>video-link for the talk, and for the question-and-answer session that 
>follows it. The talk will be also be webcast live.
>
>The lecture starts promptly at 11.30am local time for audience members at 
>MIT in Boston, Massachusetts.
>
>Webcast Information
>The lecture is being broadcast live via the world wide web, starting 
>promptly at 4.30pm Greenwich Mean Time (11.30am Eastern Standard Time) on 
>Friday 11th February. The address for the live webcast is 
>http://cmi.streamuk.com/11february
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>The lecture concludes with an interactive question and answer session. As 
>a member of the online audience, you can also participate in this. When 
>you log on to the website, you will see a link to a form that allows you 
>to submit a question. Our speakers will answer as many questions as 
>possible, from both the actual and virtual audiences, in the time available.
>
>Please note: To view the live webcast you will need either Real Media 
>Player or Windows Media Player. Visit the webcast page 
>http://cmi.streamuk.com/11february/ in advance and follow the link to the 
>"check" page to make sure you have one of these plug-ins.
>
>More about the speakers:
>
>Hermann was an influential figure in the fledgling personal computer 
>industry in the UK during the 1980s, and companies he has founded or 
>co-founded include Acorn Computers, and Virata Corporation (now part of 
>Conexant), which went from a 1990s start-up to a leading supplier of 
>silicon chips for digital subscriber line (DSL) modems. He also co-founded 
>venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners where he now oversees a 
>range of early- and later-stage developing technology companies.
>
>Dr Robert (Bob) Metcalfe began his career as an engineer-scientist, and 
>was working as a researcher for Xerox when he invented Ethernet, the 
>local-area networking (LAN) standard on which he shares four patents. In 
>2003, Ethernets 20th year, 184 million new Ethernet connections were 
>shipped for $12.5 billion. Bob subsequently founded 3Com Corporation, the 
>billion-dollar networking company. As well as serving on the board of 
>several companies, Bob is now a general partner at Polaris Venture 
>Partners in Boston, Massachusetts, and specialises in Boston-based 
>information technology start-ups.
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Deborah L. Fairchild
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