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E. Contributors
Pages 197-202

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From page 197...
... Dr. Aigrain is the author of numerous scientific papers on electronic circuits and semiconductors, has served as both the secretary general and vice president of the French Physical Society, and was chairman of the French-Chinese Committee for Economic and Industrial Cooperation.
From page 198...
... He began his career with the Ampion Insurance Company and later joined the Skandia Insurance Company where he became deputy managing director and managing director and chief executive. He joined Volvo in 1971 as managing director and chief executive officer, assuming his current position in 1983.
From page 199...
... He later joined Matsushita Communi cation Industrial Company, LtO., where ne assumed ills pure ~ "ll~l, managing director, and technical adviser to Matsushita Electric Industrial Company. Professor Karatsu has served on the Industrial Structural Council of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, with the Institute of Fifth Generation Computer Systems, and as chairman of the Office Automation Committee of the Tokyo metropolitan government.
From page 200...
... He is a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, as well as a retired director of ALCOA. He is vice president of the National Academy of Engineering and in 1985 was among the first recipients of the National Medal of Technology.
From page 201...
... intercontinental ballistic missile, he was chairman of the President's Committee on Science and Technology under President Ford, a member of the Advisory Council to Secretary of State Kissinger on Science and Foreign Affairs, the White House Council on Energy Research and Development, and the National Science Board and the first to receive the National Academy of Engineering's award for statesmanship in national science and technology policy.
From page 202...
... Dr. Tanenbaum has held several executive positions throughout AT&T, including vice president of engineering at Western Electric Company, executive vice president of Bell Laboratories, president of New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, and first chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Communications.


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