Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, VP, Google, Inc., Sci. & Tech Mentor, C-100

The Committee of 100 held its 17th Annual Conference "Bridging Progress, Sharing Vision," on April 17-19, 2008 in Los Angeles at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Bridge to a Bright Future
For the sixth consecutive year, the Committee of 100 held its popular conference mentoring program for young professionals. Here, Committee members Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Vice President, Google, Inc.; President, Google Greater China and Dr. Chi-Foon Chan
President & COO
Synopsysshared their valuable career and life lessons in an intimate, roundtable setting and field questions directly from their mentees. Mentors and mentees were matched based on areas of interest and be seated in groups of ten.

Venue: The Beverly Hilton Hotel in the Beverly Hills Ballroom
Date & Time: SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2008 (2:30pm - 5:30pm) Science & Technology Table 8
2:45-3:30pm Session I - Mentor: Dr. Chi-Foon Chan
3:35-4:20pm Session II - Mentor: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

2008年4月19日: 出席美国百人会第十七屆年会--同舟共济，并有幸得到百人会会员、谷歌(Google­)全球副总裁、大中华区总裁李开复博士和新思公司(Synopsys, Nasdaq: SNPS)总裁兼首席运营官陈志宽博士的面对面指导。More info at http://HaoYou9.com or http://HaoYou9.GooglePages.com

Kai-Fu Lee
Vice President, Google, Inc.; President, Google Greater China

Kai-Fu joined Google in 2005 to develop the company's operations in China, and now he heads the Greater China operation as its President.

From 1998 to 2005, Kai-Fu was at Microsoft as a corporate vice president responsible for advanced natural language and user interface technologies. He also founded Microsoft Research Asia, which has since become one of the best research centers in the world. From 1996 to 1998, Kai-Fu was president of Cosmo Software, a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). There he was responsible for several product lines and the company's web strategy. Before joining SGI, Lee spent 6 years at Apple Computer, most recently as vice president of the company's interactive media group, which developed QuickTime, QuickDraw 3D, QuickTime VR and PlainTalk speech technologies.

In addition, from 1988 to 1990 Kai-Fu was assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he developed the world's first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system. This system was selected as the "Most Important Innovation of 1988" by BusinessWeek. While at Carnegie Mellon, Kai-Fu also developed the computer program that plays the game "Othello," which defeated the human world champion in 1988.

Kai-Fu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Computer Science with highest honors from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Chi-Foon Chan
President & Chief Operating Officer
Synopsys

Dr. Chi-Foon Chan shares responsibility for running the company with Synopsys Chairman and CEO Dr. Aart de Geus. Dr. Chan is focused on driving the company's internal operations and worldwide field organization. He joined Synopsys in 1990 as Vice President of Applications and Services. Previously at NEC Corporation, Dr. Chan was General Manager of the microprocessor group, responsible for marketing all NEC chip devices in North America. Prior to NEC, Dr. Chan was an engineering manager at Intel Corporation. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

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[Ben Povlow]

Great Video. Keep up the good work.