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Michael Blasgen is a private investor and consultant in information technology. Most recently he was vice president and head, Computing Technologies Laboratory, at Sony’s U.S. Research Laboratory and formerly director of IBM’s Austin Research Laboratory that completed the world’s first 1GHz microprocessor. Prior positions include director of RISC Systems at IBM’s T. J. Watson Laboratory responsible for the 801 project that led to the introduction of the RISC System/6000, and manager of database systems at IBM’s Almaden Laboratory responsible for System R, the first relational database system that led to DB2. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and an M.S.E.E from California Institute of Technology. Blasgen is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. | 