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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. | 