First Evening

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#CC9922" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03dd2962dakdei.gif"> <div> <B>CTO of the Year award to AOL Time Warner's Bill Raduchel, and a panel discussion with James Gosling, Don Norman, and others</B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=452 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>InfoWorld CTO Forum 2001</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >     |    </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="InfoWorld CTO Forum 2001"><U> home</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="arriving.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Arriving and Getting Ready"><U>Arriving and Getting Ready</U></A>   |   <B>First Evening</B>   |   <A HREF="wedmorning.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wednesday Morning"><U>Wednesday Morning</U></A>   |   <A HREF="restofwed.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Rest of Wednesday"><U>The Rest of Wednesday</U></A>   |   <A HREF="thursdaymorning.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Thursday Morning"><U>Thursday Morning</U></A>   |   <A HREF="ballmertalk.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ballmers Talk and Leaving"><U>Ballmer's Talk and Leaving</U></A></div> <div> First Evening</div> <div> Bob Magnuson of InfoWorld kicked things off by awarding "CTO of the Year" to William Raduchel of AOL Time Warner. Bill then gave a little talk. This really helped set the tone for the conference. He has a very easy, matter of fact, friendly, and warm manner. He told of how he found out about the Time Warner acquisition <I>after</I> he started his job at AOL. Previously, he was at Sun, Xerox, and McGraw Hill, and even was on the admissions committee at Harvard which let in Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy. I wish I had taken notes. He went over a list of advice he had to other CTOs, including how important it was to be honest. A CTO needs to be able to be trusted to give honest appraisals. InfoWorld has <A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/su/xml/01/06/18/010618suctoy.xml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/su/xml"><U>some info</U></A> on their web site about him and the award.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0636e940.jpg" border=0 width="110" height="148" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="065ec940.jpg" border=0 width="236" height="148" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="067af940.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="148" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> CTO of the Year award to AOL Time Warner's William Raduchel</div> <div> After the award, Bill joined the panel on "A Jump on the Future" with James Gosling of Sun, David Ditzel of Transmeta, Don Norman of UNext and Nielsen Norman (and remembered for the <I>Everyday Things</I> book I recommend at the bottom of my <A HREF="http://www.bricklin.com/resources.htm#books" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bricklin.com/resources.htm#bo"><U>Book Recommendations page</U></A>), and moderator Michael Vizard, editor in chief of InfoWorld. Again, no notes, but it was interesting... Here are some pictures. No boring look-alikes in suits...the room was filled with people with facial hair, ponytails, and casual clothes.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06b88c60.jpg" border=0 width="136" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="06dfcc60.jpg" border=0 width="252" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="06fa4c60.jpg" border=0 width="164" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> James Gosling and a panel with Michael Vizard, David Ditzel, Don Norman, and William Raduchel</div> <div> <IMG SRC="07101aa0.jpg" border=0 width="257" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="07364aa0.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> More of the panel, Don Norman making a point</div> <div> <B>Next:</B> <A HREF="wedmorning.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wednesday Morning"><U>Wednesday Morning</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=28 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> < <A HREF="arriving.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Arriving and Getting Ready"><U>Previous</U></A>  <A HREF="wedmorning.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wednesday Morning"><U>Next</U></A> > /  <A HREF="http://www.bricklin.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bricklin.com"><U>www.bricklin.com</U></A>  /  (c) Copyright 2001 Daniel S. Bricklin, All Rights Reserved</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>