Die Welt von Morgen
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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Gordon BELL
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center
| 1956-1957 | B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 1960-1983 | Vice President of Research and Development, Digital Equipment Corporation - responsible for Digital's products |
| Architect of various mini- and time-sharing computers (e.g. the PDP-6) and led the development of DEC's VAX and the VAX Computing Environment. | |
| Involved in, or responsible for, the design of many products at Digital, Encore, Ardent, and a score of other companies. | |
| Involved in the design of about 30 multiprocessors; and investor of over 80 startup companies. | |
| 1966-1972 | Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University |
| 1986-1987 | First Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation's Computing Directorate |
| Since 1987 sponsored "The Gordon Bell Prize" for Parallelism administered by a committee from the annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing | |
| Boards and technical advisory boards of Cradle Technology, DiamondCluster Exchange, Dust Inc. and The Vanguard Group | |
| Founding board member of The Computer History Museum at 1401 Shoreline, Mountain View, CA, established in 1999 | |
| 1995 | Joined Microsoft |
CBE Susan GREENFIELD
Professor of Pharmacology Royal Institution of Great Britain - Director
| An undergraduate at St Hilda s College, Oxford | |
| DPhil in the University Department of Pharmacology, Oxford | |
| Research fellowships in the Department of Physiology, Oxford, the College de France, Paris, and NYU Medical Center, New York | |
| 1985 | appointed University Lecturer in Synaptic Pharmacology, and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Lincoln College, Oxford |
| Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute of Neuroscience, La Jolla, USA | |
| 1996 | Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Queens University, Belfast |
| since 1996 | Professor of Pharmacology |
| since 1998 | appointed Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain |
| Currently a Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, and an Honorary Fellow at St Hilda s College, Oxford |
Dipl.-Ing. Josef PRÖLL
Ehemaliger Vizekanzler und Bundesminister für Finanzen der Republik Österreich; Vorstandssprecher, Leipnik-Lundenburger Invest Beteiligungs AG, Wien
| 1987-1993 | Studium an der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Studienrichtung Landwirtschaft, Studienzweig Agrarökonomie |
| 1993-1998 | Referent der Niederösterreichischen Landes-Landwirtschaftskammer |
| 1998-2000 | Wirtschaftspolitischer Referent im Österreichischen Bauernbund; Assistent der Abgeordneten Agnes Schierhuber im EU-Parlament |
| 1999-2000 | Direktor des Wiener Bauernbundes |
| 2000-2001 | Kabinettschef von Bundesminister Wilhelm Molterer im Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (BMLFUW) |
| 2001-2003 | Direktor des Österreichischen Bauernbundes |
| 2003-2008 | Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (BMLFUW) |
| seit 2008 | Bundesparteiobmann der Österreichischen Volkspartei |
| Vizekanzler und Bundesminister für Finanzen der Republik Österreich, Wien |
Carlo RUBBIA
Since 1999 President of ENEA (Italian National Agency for new technologies, energy and the environment)
| Graduated at Scuola Normale, Pisa (thesis on cosmic rays), | |
| PhD Columbia University, New York | |
| since 1961 | working at CERN |
| In 1976, he suggested adapting CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to collide protons and antiprotons in the same ring and the world's first antiproton factory was built. The collider started running in 1981 and, in early 1983, an international team of more than 100 physicists headed by Rubbia and known as the UA1 Collaboration, detected the intermediate vector bosons.For this discovery in I1984 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. | |
| 1989-1993 | Director-General of the CERN |
| 1970-1988 | Higgins Professor of Physics, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, |
| Since 1999 President of ENEA (Ente Nazionale per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente). Carlo Rubbia is Full Professor of Physics at Pavia University, in Italy. |
Dr. Peter F. KROGH
Dean emeritus and distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
| Studied Arts in Law and Diplomacy and Philosophy at Tufts University | |
| 1958-1960 | Trainee and Acting Assistant Branch Manager, The New England Merchants Bank, Boston |
| 1961-1962 | Instructor in Government, Tufts University |
| 1962-1967 | Assistant Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University |
| 1963-1967 | Host, television interview program, "Backgrounds" - WGBH-TV, Boston |
| 1965 | Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institute |
| 1967-1968 | White House Fellow, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State |
| 1968-1970 | Associate Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University |
| 1970-1995 | Dean and Professor of International Affairs, School of Foreign Service |
| 1982-1988 | Moderator, weekly PBS television program on foreign affairs "American Interests" |
| 1988-2005 | Moderator, PBS television foreign affairs series: "Great Decisions" |
| since 1995 | Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. |
