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    Greetings from The MIT Entrepreneurs Club, aka: `the e-club'
      plus Seminars 089 & 095, on High Tech Start-Ups at MIT
   and MAS-S01, on Networking at MIT: Academic, Business & Social

      A Special End-of-Term E-Club Meeting, Seminar & Dinner

			   Rob Siegel
		Manager of Corporate Development
		       Intel Corporation

     	        Tuesday, 12 Dec, from 6pm-onward
		    in 66-144/148 & at P&G
 	    talk at 6, discussion at 7, dinner at 8

In this talk and discussion, and dinner-after, Rob Siegel will talk
briefly on Intel's history and then about two particular strategic 
areas, PCs in The Home, and Digital Media, and how Intel views
and might participate in these markets.

Following these topics Rob will focus on his work at Intel in
Corporate Business Development, describe his group's work with new
technology entrepreneurs, how they look for new opportunities,
make investments, fund new products for viability ... and how his
technology-savvy group differs from VC firms or investment banks,
as all Intel's relevant activities are driven by strategic interests,
not just financial returns.

In the threads Rob weaves he'll also attempt to describe a typical
week in his life.

Rob Siegel received his undergraduate degree in Political Science
from U.C. Berkeley, and the MBA from Stanford, but promises us
he is a true geek.  He's been at Intel as Manager of Corporate
Development for 18 months, and has been responsible for strategic and
investment work in multiplayer gaming, virtual worlds and 3D graphics. 
More recently his responsilities have surrounded developing Intel's 
strategy for how the PC interacts with consumer electronics devices in 
the home and coordinating work with both small and large companies 
in this area.

Prior to Intel Rob worked at GeoWorks for 6.5 years (a software company 
that develops operating system software for PDAs, intelligent cellular 
phones, set-top boxes, etc.) where he managed international retail sales 
in Europe and OEM design wins worldwide.

Rob has also consulted for both Sun Microsystems (for the group that 
developed the Java technology) and Bain and Company.

Special thanks to David Sprague of Intel, and currently a Visitor
at The Media Lab, for bringing Rob to the E-Club & Seminars.

Note on Meeting Schedule & Dinner-After:

The E-Club meets from 6-7pm in 66-144 and Seminar 089 meets
from 7-9 in 66-148 (7-8 for this last meeting of the term) and
we all go to dinner at Poppa & Goose at 8pm.  It appears that
unless the crowd is very large, we can provide transportation
for all in several very large cars to P&G at 69 First Street.

Dinner costs from about $7 to $12 per mouth, and possibly on 
the even more reasonable side if you're a vegetarian.

If you haven't eaten at P&G with us before, in E-Club or
seminar meetings and dinners, please do try to get to this one.

If you _are_ planning to dine with us after the meeting & seminar
PLEASE rsvp to me so i have some idea of transpo requirements.

If any of you corporate folks on the list are feeling especially
flush, consider underwriting this dinner, especially for students.

Thanks, and I hope to see many of you on Tuesday!

	- r
	 <rdshydur@athena> or <shydurov@media>
	  253-2000, h: 864-4039
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