Annual Dinner 2008
July 24th • New Seabury Country Club
East Coast/West Coast Culture
David Hartzband
Post Technical Reasearch
David has spent more than two decades exploring and integrating emerging technologies and has developed companies and products on both the east and the west coast. Between living with one foot on each coast and teaching at both Stanford and MIT, he has by necessity learned to navigate two different business cultures that create different approaches and outcomes - and he'll share that insight (along with some really good war stories!) as part of the CCTC Annual Dinner and BBQ.
Much of his technical focus has bee in developing advanced database and metadata technologies, including knowledgebase, similarity-based reasoning systems, and model and ontology-based systems. He has also developed products in the distributed middleware, content management and collaboration areas, as well architecting large-scale data and information management systems. He is currently founder and Principal of PostTechnical Research, a trend analysis and technology strategy consulting firm. He is also a Visiting Scholar in the Engineering Systems Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is writing a book for MIT Press: Technology, Organizations & the Evolution of Work.
Previously, David was David was Vice President, Collaboration Technology at Documentum, Inc. After the firm's acquistion by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), he served as EMC's Technology Vice President, Collaboration in the Content Management Software Group. Prior to that he was Chief Technology Officer at eRoom Technology.
He also served as Chief Technology Officer at Agile Software (NASDAQ:AGIL) where he was responsible for planning, designing & leading a major technology evolution to make Agile’s product set available on UNIX in J2EE/EJB, and as Chief Technology Officer at the strategy-consulting firm Upstream Consulting in Emeryville, California where he worked with early stage companies and companies in transition. On the east coast he was Chief Technology Officer for Riverton Software, a software start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts that produced component-based application development environment; he part part of the team that took the company from founding to 200 customers in 5 countries within 3 years.
Early in his career he was Chief Scientist and Director of Technical Data Processing for Normandeau Associates, Inc. which specialized in large-scale environmental monitoring and modeling of ecological and socioeconomic systems. He then moved to Digital Equipment Corporation and spent 14 years where, among other roles he served as Chief Scientist for Artifical Intelligence, and was software architect for the first version of Digital's relational database product Rdb, now owend by Oracle.
David is the author of numerous technical reports and journal articles in mathematics, artificial intelligence, concurrent engineering and cultural anthropology. He holds a doctoral degree in mathematics and has served as an adjunct faculty member at both Stanford University (Computer Science Department & Knowledge Systems Laboratory) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Leaders for Manufacturing Program).
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