• Diarmuid O'Scannlain - Judge (United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit)

• Don Baker - Attorney for Open Sesame (Baker & Miller, LLP)
• Terry McMahon - Attorney for Closed Corporation (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP)

• Linus Torvalds - Technical Expert for Open Sesame (Transmeta Corporation)
• Edward Felten - Technical Expert for Closed Corporation (Professor, Computer Science, Princeton University)

• Ira Magaziner - Keynote Speaker (President, SJS Advisors)

• David Steele - Program Coordinator (Loyola Law School and Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP)

  California Institute of Technology Students

• Roman Ginis - Closed Corporation Legal Team (Caltech)
• Joseph Kiniry - Open Sesame Legal Team (Caltech)
• Daniel Zimmerman - Judicial Team (Caltech)

  Loyola Law School Students

• Alan Heinrich - Judicial Team (Loyola Law School)
• Vincent Pollmeier - Closed Corporation Legal Team (Loyola Law School)
• Lena Smith - Open Sesame Legal Team (Loyola Law School)

  Program Advisors

• K. Mani Chandy - Program Advisor (Chair, Caltech Computer Science Department)
• Lawrence Gilbert - Program Advisor (Director, Caltech Office of Technology Transfer)
• Karl Manheim - Program Advisor (Professor of Law, Loyola Law School)
• Gerald McLaughlin - Program Advisor (Dean, Loyola Law School)
• Wes Monroe - Program Advisor (Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP)
• Nick Nichols - Program Advisor (Director, Caltech Industrial Relations Center)
• Kenneth Ott - Program Advisor (Director of Development, Loyola Law School)
• Tom Tombrello - Program Advisor (Caltech)

  Program Advisor, Program Sponsor

• Henry Yuen - Program Sponsor (President & CEO, Gemstar International)

Biographical Information

Don Baker

Donald I. Baker is a former Assistant Attorney General who, in 1994, established an independent practice in Washington specializing in antitrust and competition policy issues. His firm's efforts focus on joint ventures, mergers, licensing, network disputes and international transactions. The firm tends to work closely, on a team basis, with corporate law departments and law firms in handling litigation, arbitrations and government investigations.

Mr. Baker is the only modern member of the career Antitrust Division staff to be appointed Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Antitrust Division. He was a Trial Attorney and Section Chief (1966-1971), and Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Regulated Industries, Appeals and Foreign Commerce (1972-1975), before becoming Assistant Attorney General (1976-1977). He also has served as Professor of Law at Cornell Law School (1975-1978), and as a Washington partner of two major law firms (1978-1994).

Mr. Baker was educated at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (A.B. cum laude 1957); Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (B.A. in Law 1959); and Harvard University (LL.B. 1961).

K. Mani Chandy

K. Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He is the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989.

Dr. Chandy got his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering with a thesis in Operations Research. He got a Masters from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Dr. Chandy has worked for Honeywell and IBM. From 1970 to 1989, he was in the Computer Science Department of the University of Texas at Austin, serving as chair in 1978-79 and 1983-85. He has served as a consultant to a number of companies including IBM and Bell Labs.

Dr. Chandy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communication in 1987 and the A.A. Michelson Award from the Computer Measurement Group in 1985.

Dr. Chandy does research in distributed computing. He has published three books and over a hundred papers on distributed computing, verification of concurrent programs, parallel programming languages and performance models of computing and communication systems.

Edward Felten

Edward W. Felten is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1993. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1993, and his B.S. from Caltech in 1985.

His main research interest is in computer and network security, focusing on the security of popular software such as Web browsers. He has published more than fifty research papers and two books, and his work on the security of the Java programming language has received wide attention in the technical and popular press.

In 1998 and 1999, he testified twice as an expert witness for the Department of Justice in the Microsoft antitrust case.

Lawrence Gilbert

Mr. Gilbert has been engaged in university patent administration since 1966. A patent attorney, and formerly the Director of Patent Licensing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the patent administrator for Boston University's Community Technology Foundation (CTF), he is currently the Director of the Office of Technology Transfer at the California Institute of Technology.

A founding member of the Society of University Patent Administrators (now AUTM), Mr. Gilbert has been a frequent lecturer on patent and licensing matters to the University community and more recently the California Bar.

Since 1980, Mr. Gilbert has been responsible for the formation of more than 50 start-ups based upon or associated with university research. Several have gone public or have been acquired, and many have products in the marketplace. He acts primarily as a catalyst in putting the deal together, linking faculty, technology, and venture capital.

Roman Ginis

Roman Ginis is in the Ph.D. program in computer science at the California Institute of Technology. He also holds a BS with highest distinction from the University of Rhode Island. In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

Roman's current research is in distributed system modeling, distributed resource allocation and component composition. During '96-'98 he worked for the MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA, where he designed real-time systems and databases for military applications. Concurrently, Roman consults for various Internet companies and startups.

Alan Heinrich

Alan Heinrich is a third year student at Loyola Law School. He is the Fritz Burns Scholar and Chief Articles Editor for the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Alan graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Classics from Washington and Lee University in 1990, and he received his Ph.D. in Classics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Southern California teaching classes in Ancient Greek and Latin.

Alan will clerk for the Honorable Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals during 2000-01 term. After completing his clerkship, he will then return to Los Angeles to become an associate at the law firm of Irell & Manella in Century City.

Joseph Kiniry

Joseph Kiniry is completing a Ph.D. in computer science from the California Institute of Technology in 1999. It is his fifth advanced degree. Joe's research interests include software engineering, distributed systems, object-oriented systems and languages, components, type and object theories, semantics, knowledge representation, and systems modeling. He has an extensive publication record, both in academia and industry.

Prior to attending Caltech, he was a senior researcher at the Open Software Foundation Research Institute where he contributed to several research groups and helped jump-start the OSF's efforts in Java. For over ten years, he has been an high level independent consultant in distributed systems, software engineering, Internet security and computer graphics. Joe is also an entrepreneur and has started four companies in the last four years.

Ira Magaziner

Ira C. Magaziner is currently President of SJS, Incorporated, a business strategy consulting and investment firm. Ira served as Senior Advisor to the President of the United States for Policy Development from January 1993 to December 1998. From December 1995 to December 1998, Mr. Magaziner coordinated the U.S. Government's strategy on electronic commerce and the emerging digital economy. He supervised the development of the President's strategy paper "A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce" released in July 1997, and coordinated the interagency team to implement the strategy.

Karl Manheim

Karl Manheim is a professor of law at Loyola Law School where he teaches and writes in the areas of Communications Law, Constitutional Law, and related subjects. He received his LL.M degree from Harvard Law School in 1978. He is admitted to the Supreme Court Bar, the California Bar, and the U.S. Patent Bar. He has litigated numerous constitutional cases at all levels of state and federal courts. His current interest is in distance learning and integrating technology into the law school curriculum.

Gerald McLaughlin

Gerald T. McLaughlin earned his BA degree summa cum laude from Fordham College in New York City. He graduated from New York University Law School in 1966 where he was Managing Editor of the New York University Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After graduating from law school, he was a Legal Writing Instructor at Boalt Hall (University of California at Berkeley Law School) and then an Associate in the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Following teaching stints at the University of Connecticut, Fordham and Brooklyn Law Schools, he became Dean of Loyola of Los Angeles Law School in January 1991.

Dean McLaughlin has lectured and written extensively in the commercial law field with particular emphasis on letters of credit. He is a co-author of Commercial Law and Practice Guide, published by Matthew Bender & Co., and the editor of Letters of Credit Report, a bimonthly newsletter on letters of credit.

Terry McMahon

Terrence P. McMahon is a partner in Orrick's Litigation Department and a member of the firm's bi-coastal Intellectual Property Group. Mr. McMahon has over 20 years of litigation experience and has particular expertise in intellectual property litigation representing high-technology clients.

Mr. McMahon frequently lectures on trial practice and computer law issues for such organizations as the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Santa Clara County Bar Association, Santa Clara University's Computer Law Conference, the Hastings Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy, and the Intellectual Property Inns of Court.

Mr. McMahon attended Santa Clara University where he earned a J.D. cum laude in 1976 and a B.S.C.

Wes Monroe

Wes is a partner at Christie, Parker & Hale, in Pasadena. His practice emphasis is in patent prosecution and litigation in computer and electronic arts; patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret counseling, disputes regarding domain names and counseling on other Internet legal issues.

Wes is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles (B.S., Mathematics/Computer Science, 1987) and Loyola Law School (J.D., 1990). He is a member of the Pasadena, Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations; the State Bar of California; the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association; and the American Electronics Association, Los Angeles Council.

Nick Nichols

Nick Nichols is Director of the Caltech Industrial Relations Center. In this capacity he directs an executive education program encompassing the management of advanced technology and new product innovation, strategy and global perspective, executive leadership, new venture formation and operations management. The Center was rated third in executive education worldwide by the Wall Streeet Journal, and its programs reach over 4,000 executives and managers each year.

He is the founder of the Enterprise Forum in Pasadena, an organization devoted to educating and encouraging new entrepreneurial ventures. He was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to the Board of Overseers of the Baldrige National Quality Award, and is on the Advisory Board of the Irish Naitional Institute of Technology Management. His other foreign assignments have included the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia and visiting Professor of Business Management at the Indian Institute of Technology.

He is on the editorial board of Technology Management Magazine and was featured in "Management", the 26-part educational series on public television. Mr. Nichols has a degree in economics from Yale University.

Diarmuid O'Scannlain

Judge O'Scannlain was appointed United States Circuit Judge by President Reagan on September 26, 1986 and entered on duty November 25, 1986. He was educated at Harvard Law School, receiving a J.D. degree in 1963, and at St. John's University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1957. He also earned the LL.M. (Judicial Process) degree at University of Virginia Law School in 1992.

As a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Judge O'Scannlain has participated in over 4,000 federal cases and has written hundreds of published opinions on a broad range of subjects including constitutional law, securities law, administrative law, and criminal law. He hears appeals in San Francisco (court headquarters), as well as in Los Angeles (Pasadena), Portland, Seattle, Anchorage and Honolulu. Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed Judge O'Scannlain in 1990 to the Automation and Technology Committee of the United States Judicial Conference where he served as Chairman of its Planning, Budget and Priorities Subcommittee.

Kenneth Ott

Ken has served as Director of Development at Loyola since 1996 handling the School's fund raising, alumni relations, and publications division. A Certified Fund raising Executive (CFRE), Ken has served as Director of Development for the University of Southern California School of Medicine, the Pasadena Playhouse, and has consulted on numerous Institutional fund raising projects. Ken has an MFA degree from the University of Montana, and a BA degree from Indiana University.

Vincent Pollmeier

Vincent Pollmeier is a fourth year evening student at Loyola Law School, where he is President of the Evening Student Bar Association and a member of the St. Thomas More Honor Society. Mr. Pollmeier has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University and a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas.

For the past eleven years, he has been an engineer with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a NASA center operated by the California Institute of Technology. Mr. Pollmeier was a navigator for the Galileo mission to Jupiter, and led the initial development of the Mars Pathfinder navigation system. He has managed the Navigation Advanced Technology Program for the Deep Space Network and is currently the Information System Engineer for the Mission Data System Project, developing the software for the operation of the next generation of interplanetary robotic missions.

Lena Smith

Lena Smith is a fourth year evening student at Loyola Law School, where she is a member of Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review and the Giles Sutherland Rich Patent Moot Court Team. Ms. Smith is also the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award for Legal Writing and the First Honor's Award for Trademark Law. Ms. Smith has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California and currently works as a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin Technical Operations where she is the Program Integrator for several Department of Defense satellite programs.

David Steele

David is completing his J.D at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (candidate for J.D. 2000). He received B.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Eng. from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Prior to entering law school, David was the Engineering Manager at Fibertron Corporation, working on the design and implementation of high speed computer networks and Internet engineering. He is a Technical Advisor and member of the Network Advisor Board for world+Interop, and also a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). David has also been active in Internet governance, and the formation of ICANN.

Tom Tombrello

Tom is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He has served as the Technology Assessment Officer since 1996. From 1987 to 1989 he was Vice President and Director of Research at the Schlumberger-Doll Research Laboratory of Schlumberger, Ltd. During this period he also served on the boards of Directors of the Schlumberger Technology Corporation and the Schlumberger Foundation. In 1992 he was on the Vice President's Space Policy Advisory Board.

Honors include: Distinguished Alumnus of Rice University (1998); D.h.c. of Uppsala University (1997); Alexander von Humboldt Awardee (1984-1985); Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of California, Davis (1984); and A. P. Sloan Fellow (1971). He is chairman of the Advisory Committees in Chemistry and Materials Science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a member of their Director's Advisory Committee. He is chairman of the Physics Department Visiting Committee at Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Tombrello obtained his B.A. (1958), B.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1961) degrees in physics at Rice University.

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds was born in 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, only to several years afterwards graduate from Helsinki University with a MSc in Computer Science in 1997. After his graduation, he moved to Santa Clara, California, to work at a startup company called Transmeta, where he still resides.

During his studies, and after his graduation, he initiated and led the operating system project that was to become known as "Linux", one of the most successful open source initiatives on the internet to date, and he still acts as the technical lead person for the kernel of the operating system. In recognition of this leadership role, he received a PhD honoris causa from the University of Stockholm, Sweden, in 1999.

Henry Yuen

Henry Yuen is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Gemstar International Group Limited, a $7 billion dollar company specialized in developing consumer-friendly technology. Gemstar's first product VCR Plus+ system, which simplifies VCR programming, is now a de facto world standard, being incorporated in all brands of VCRs and supported by 1,800 publications in 40 countries having a combined daily circulation of over 330 million. Gemstar's second major product is the on-screen interactive program guide, which allows a user to view program schedule and description on the television screen, and to tune to or record any selected show, with just one-click of the remote control. Gemstar's interactive program guide technology has been incorporated in or licensed to televisions, VCRs, satellite decoders, cable boxes, WebTVs, and in every copy of Microsoft Windows 98.

Henry Yuen received his B.A. (Hon) in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in 1969, Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1973, and his J.D. from Loyola in 1979. Yuen has over 70 scientific publications in the area of nonlinear wave theory and remote sensing, and 20 issued patents in various subjects. Yuen is a TRW Technical Fellow and an active member of the State Bar of California. In 1990, Yuen was named as the Entrepreneur of the Year by Business Week. In 1996, Yuen was elected the National Entrepreneur of the Year by the Entrepreneur Institute sponsored by Ernst & Young, Nasdaq, USA Today and the Kaufman Fund. In 1998, Yuen received the Corporate Excellence Award from Loyola University School of Law, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the California Institute of Technology.

Daniel Zimmerman

Daniel Zimmerman is a doctoral candidate in the Computer Science department at the California Institute of Technology. He hopes to complete his degree during the 1999-2000 academic year. Prior to becoming a doctoral candidate, he received both a B.S. with Honor (in Engineering and Applied Science, 1996) and an M.S. (in Computer Science, 1998) from the California Institute of Technology.

Dan's research interests include distributed systems, software engineering, and formal methods. In addition, he is interested in legal and ethical issues associated with computing and computer science, and minored in the "Science, Ethics and Society" discipline as an undergraduate. He was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 1997 for his work on the Caltech Infospheres Project.

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