Charles House
Chuck is former chancellor of Cogswell College, an innovative technical university specializing in digital arts, engineering, and entrepreneurship. Previously he was the executive director of Media X, Stanford University's membership research program on media and technology. He is also a senior research scholar there, continuing his work in technology-enabled communications, collaboration, and community. PBefore joinin Stanford, Chuck was the director of Societal Impact of Technology, for Intel Corporation. He has been deeply involved with questions of technology's effect on society, and has long focused on issues surrounding the attributes and impact of software technologies, particularly distance learning and collaboration using multimediated Web networking. He was instrumental in establishing the new Center for Information Technologies and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and serves as Advisory Chair. Earlier, Chuck was senior vice president of multi-media communication research for Dialogic (acquired by Intel in 1999), and also President of Spectron Microsystems (sold to Texas Instruments). Chuck was part of the IPO executive team at Veritas Software, and senior vice president of R&D at Informix Software during the very successful turnaround years of 1991-93. Healso spent 29 years at Hewlett-Packard in a variety of management and technical roles, including five years as corporate engineering director. Chuck's other affiliations include chairman of the board for Applied Microsystems and Attensity Corporation, and serving on several other boards, including the Computer History Center in Mountain View, CA. Chuck is a past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and an IEEE Fellow. He maintains a management consulting service, InnovaScapes, which is concerned with creativity and innovation. Chuck is also the author of The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation (Stanford University Press, 2009)
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