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Nick
Tredennick
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Dr.
Nick Tredennick is Editor of the Gilder Technology Report. He is an
advisor and investor in numerous pre-IPO startups and is a member
of technical advisory boards for several companies including Ascenium,
Impinj, QuickSilver Technology, Terakeet, and the Venture X Group.
He is on the editorial advisory board for several technical publications
including IEEE Spectrum and Microprocessor Report. He is an IEEE representative
to the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), which oversees
university accreditation for all engineering programs. He was a member
of the Army Science Board for six years and is a registered professional
engineer.
Dr. Tredennick
was named a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to microprocessor
design. He has over thirty years experience in computer and microprocessor
design, holds nine patents, and has more than fifty technical publications,
including a textbook on microprocessor design (Microprocessor Logic
Design). He was a Senior Design Engineer at Motorola, a Research
Staff Member at IBM's Watson Research Center, and Chief Scientist
at Altera. Dr. Tredennick did the logic design and microcode for
Motorola's MC68000 and for IBM's Micro/370 microprocessors. He has
taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of
California, Berkeley. He has been a founder of several Silicon Valley
startups.
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George
Gilder
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George
Gilder is Chairman of Gilder Publishing LLC, located in Great Barrington,
Massachusetts. He is also a Senior Fellow at Discovery
Institute where he directs Discovery's program on high technology
and public policy.
Born in 1939 in New York City, Mr. Gilder attended Exeter Academy
and Harvard University. At Harvard, he studied under Henry Kissinger
and helped found Advance , a journal of political thought, which
he edited and helped to re-establish in Washington, DC after his
graduation in 1962. During this period he co-authored (with Bruce
Chapman) a political history, The Party That Lost Its Head . He
later returned to Harvard as a fellow at the Kennedy Institute of
Politics and editor of the Ripon Forum . In the 1960s Mr. Gilder
also served as a speech writer for several prominent official and
candidates, including Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Richard
Nixon.
In the 1970s, as an independent researcher and writer, Mr. Gilder
began an excursion into the causes of poverty, which resulted in
his books Men and Marriage (original version 1972) and Visible Man
(1978); and hence, of wealth, which led to his best-selling Wealth
and Poverty (1981). Mr. Gilder pioneered the formulation of supply-side
economics when he served as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute's
Economic Roundtable, as Program Director for the Manhattan Institute,
and as a frequent contributor to A.B. Laffer's economic reports
and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal . In the 1980s
he also consulted leaders of America's high technology businesses.
According to a recent study of speeches, Mr. Gilder was President
Reagan's most frequently quoted living author. In 1986, President
Reagan gave George Gilder the White House Award for Entrepreneurial
Excellence. In 1996 he was made a Fellow of the International Engineering
Consortium.
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The
investigation into wealth creation led Mr. Gilder into deeper examination
of the lives of present-day entrepreneurs, culminating in many articles
and a book, The Spirit of Enterprise (1986). The book was revised
and republished in 1992. That many of the most interesting current
entrepreneurs were to be found in high technology fields also led
Mr. Gilder, over several years, to examine this subject in depth.
In his best-selling work, Microcosm (1989), he explored the quantum
roots of the new electronic technologies. A subsequent book, Life
After Television , published first as a Whittle Communications monograph
and then published by W.W. Norton (1992), and updated and republished
in 1994, is a prophecy of the future of computers and telecommunications.
This book is a prelude to his latest book on the future of telecommunications,
Telecosm (2000).
Mr. Gilder is a contributing editor of Forbes magazine and a frequent
writer for The Economist , the Harvard Business Review ,The Wall
Street Journal , and other publications. Over the past several years,
he has dismissed many of the most touted new technologies—from
HDTV and interactive television to 3DO game machines and CD-I multimedia,
from TDMA wireless and Nextel cellular compression to pervasive
ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) networks. Embraced instead: All-optical
networks, smart radios, Qualcomm digital wireless, Stratacom frame
relay, mediaprocessors, Netscape browsers, and Sun's Java programming
language.
George Gilder lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire
Mountains, where he is an active churchman, sometime runner, and
with his wife Nini, parent of four children.
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