Brad Smith, Senior Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs for Microsoft, will discuss the topic of Moving Technology to the Cloud – Who’s On Point? at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 12, 2010 in 101 Sherrerd Hall on Princeton University campus. A reception immediately following 3rd floor atrium. The event is open to the Princeton community.

Brad Smith is Microsoft’s general counsel and senior vice president, Legal and Corporate Affairs. He leads the company’s Department of Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA), which has just over 1,000 employees and is responsible for the company’s legal work, its intellectual property portfolio, and its government affairs and philanthropic work. He also serves as Microsoft’s corporate secretary and its chief compliance officer.

Since becoming general counsel in 2002, Smith has overseen numerous negotiations leading to competition law and intellectual property agreements with governments and with companies across the IT sector. He has helped spearhead the growth in the company’s intellectual property portfolio and the launch of global campaigns to bring enforcement actions against those engaged in software piracy and counterfeiting, malware, consumer fraud, and other digital crimes. As software has migrated online and into a computing “cloud,” one of LCA’s current principal goals is to help establish the legal foundation for this next generation of technology.

Smith has played a central role in ensuring that Microsoft fulfills its corporate responsibilities. In recent years Microsoft has consistently ranked in the top 2 percent of the S&P 500 for corporate governance scores. During Smith’s tenure, the company’s citizenship programs have reached 280 million people in 110 countries through technology training programs that help individuals develop the skills needed to obtain jobs. Smith has also helped advance several significant diversity and pro bono initiatives, both within Microsoft and in the broader legal profession.

Directions and Location of Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University:

The Center for Information Technology Policy moved to its new home in September 2008 and is now located on the third floor of Sherrerd Hall, previously known as the ORFE Building.

This new glass building is located between the Mudd Library and the Wallace Social Science Building on Shapiro Walk. We are not located directly on a street but are between Prospect and William and Olden and Washington.

You can find their building with the campus map or Google Maps.

Contact information:
Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
305 Sherrerd Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
citp@princeton.edu
(609) 258-9658

About the Center for Information Technology:

The Center for Information Technology Policy uses Princeton’s unique strengths to promote an informed public discussion of digital technologies. The Center is a nexus of expertise in technology and engineering, public policy, and the social sciences on campus. In keeping with the strong University tradition of service, the Center’s research, teaching, and public programs address digital technologies as they interact with policy, markets and society.

Center participants come from Princeton departments including Computer Science, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Sociology, and the University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The Center hosts events such as a lecture series, workshops, conferences, and informal lunchtime discussions. It produces both leading research and practical demonstrations of issues at the crossroads of technology and policy.

Rapidly changing technology requires attentive and insightful analysis, so the Center strives to be both nimble and rigorous. Members of the Center frequently have a public role in elucidating and reconciling the sometimes orthogonal interests of different policy prescriptions — in Congressional testimony, the press, and publications that bridge between academy, industry, and government. For instance, privacy and security are both widely discussed issues on the Internet, but too often the rhetoric about each takes place without considering the other. Likewise, these debates typically lack the type of deep technical understanding that would benefit policymakers.

The public is invited to experience the new Windows 7 operating system for themselves on computers built by technician X. Computer experts from technician X will be on hand to discuss the latest computer trends and to supply coupons for valuable software discounts. Drawings will be held to give away T-shirts and other items.

“Windows 7 is the first compelling reason to upgrade your operating system since Windows XP was launched earlier this century,” according to Jon Gaull, the head in-house computer technician and chief system engineer at technician X. “Vista was a real step back in performance and compatibility, but Windows 7 puts Microsoft back on track in a big way.”

Microsoft designed Windows 7 to simplify the PC and make it easier to use. The technician X Windows 7 launch party will give Princeton area residents, students, and business owners a chance to judge for themselves if Microsoft accomplished that goal.

Technician X is located in the Village Shopping Center on Route 206 in Montgomery, across from the Montgomery Cinema. Refreshments will be served.

Seven years later, and only 2 blocks from the original TerraCycle offices at 20 Nassau Street, TerraCycle has again selected Princeton as the ideal location for a new business venture. The TerraCycle Store officially opened October 1st at 63 Palmer Square West in Princeton and it will directly sell all of the products TerraCycle manufacturers.

The store will also serve as a collection point for each of the 48 different waste streams TerraCycle currently accepts, ranging from used drink pouches to yogurt cups to butter tubs! Two cents will be donated to a local school for each piece of waste collected. Eventually TerraCycle hopes to use the success of this store to open more locations across the country, so they can raise awareness of upcycling and money for more schools nationwide.

TerraCycle the store will also be selling one of a kind artwork made by graffiti artists with whom TerraCycle hosts its Annual graffiti Jam, Mek and Kasso. These truly beautiful pieces of artwork are displayed on the backside of billboard vinyl waste and capture the essence of turning trash to treasure. Our upcycled billboard graffiti art transforms not only the billboard material into something spectacular, but also gives an art form commonly seen in a negative light, a place to be seen as something much more. TerraCycle has always had an admiration for graffiti art and artist regularly repaint both the inside and outside of our main office in Trenton from head to toe in graffiti artwork, so these pieces are truly a representation of our artists, our company, our mission and our passion.

To learn more about the store or to ask questions, please feel free to contact the TerraCycle Store at 609-921-1114 or visit us at 63 Palmer Square West in Princeton, NJ.

To learn more about our comapny visit our website www.terracycle.net

“If people come to work together for the benefit of the client, then don’t be worried about positioning in your own organization,” advises Kenneth M. Rich, a recruitment consultant for A.T. Kearney Executive Search in New York. “In some (other) organizations, there’s peril associated with going to work. People are going to be territorial in some firms and have their own agenda.”

“Networking is not about ‘cold calls’ to strangers, but rather about ¿warm calls’ through personal and professional referrals,” says Myers. “So, it generally should not be difficult to get people to take your calls.” If your target doesn’t respond to three of your networking attempts, focus on other contacts.

Remember that if you leave a company, your inter-office network remains invaluable. Old contacts can land new positions that may enrich your future networking efforts. Don’t click “delete contact” in your address files.

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