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C. The Sixth Convocation Program: Technology and the Global Economy
Pages 187-190

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From page 187...
... Forsberg President Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences Sir Denis Rooke President The Fellowship of Engineering
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From page 188...
... United States Simon Ramo, Co-Founder TRW Inc., United States Lecture Room 9:00 am Session 1: Cutting Edge Technologies and Their Effects Chairman: Marco A Murray-Lasso, National Academy of Engineering of Mexico 9:15 am Manufacturing Technologies Pehr Gyllenhammar Chairman AB Volvo, Sweden 10:00 am New Materials 11:00 am Information Technologies 1:30 pm 1:45 pm 2:30 pm Software Pierre Aigrain Scientific Advisor to the President of the Thomson Group, France Lars Ramqvist Executive Vice President Ericsson Group, Sweden Session 2: Changes in Industry Sectors Resulting from Technology Advances Chairman: Sir Francis Tombs, Chairman, Rolls-Royce, Ltd.
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... SIXTH CONVOCATION PROGRAM 3:30 pm Telecommunications Wednesday, April 1, 1987 189 Hiroshi Inose Chairman Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo; Director General, National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan 9:00 am Session 3: Technology and the Global Economy: The Effects of Each on the Other Panel Chairman: Alf Akerman, Vice Chairman, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences; Former President, SE Banken, Gothenburg Group, Sweden 9:15 am Panel: Umberto Colombo, Chairman, Italian National Commission for Nuclear and Alternate Energy Sources, Italy Gerald Dinneen, Vice President, Research and Development, Honeywell Inc., United States Hajime Karatsu, Professor, Institute of Research and Development, Tokai University, Japan Ralph Landau, Consulting Professor of Economics and of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, United States Enrique Martin del Campo, Executive Secretary for Education, Science and Culture, Organization of American States 10:45 am Discussion 1:00 pm Session 4: Regional and National Consequences of Globalizing Industry Chairman: Sir David Zeidler, President, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, Australia 1:10 pm Latin America, Mexico, and the United States 1:50 pm Western Europe Emilio Carillo Gamboa Director General, Telefonos de Mexico, Mexico Harry L Beckers Group Research Coordinator Shell International; Chairman, Industry Research & Development Advisory Committee, EEC, the Netherlands
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... , Former Director Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Australia Limited, Australia 4:00 pm Session 5: Overall Assessment Panel Chairman: Morris Tanenbaum, Vice Chairman of the Board, AT&T, United States 4:15 pm Panel: Wolf Hafele, Director General, Nuclear Research Center, Julich, Federal Republic of Germany Sir Robin Nicholson, Executive Director, Pilkington Brothers plc, United Kingdom Robert Malpas, Managing Director, British Petroleum Company, United Kingdom
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