Director of Calit2 Appointed to Advisory Board of Global Consortium

San Diego, CA and Friday Harbor, WA, July 7, 2013 -- The Strategic News Service's Inventing Nations Vs. Nation-sponsored Theft of Intellectual Property (INVNT/IP) Global Consortium announced the appointment of Dr. Larry Smarr to its Advisory Board.

Calit2's Larry Smarr (at left) with Strategic News Service founder Mark Anderson at 2006 Future in Review (FiRe) conference

Dr. Smarr is the Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecom-munications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego/ UC Irvine partnership headquartered in the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego. He is internationally recognized for his work in supercomputing, supervisualization, global broadband deployment, and, most recently, for his pioneering work in the field of Quantified Health. He is an active member of the Strategic News Service (SNS) community and of the SNS Future in Review (FiRe) Conference Steering Committee.

INVNT/IP represents the world's top technology companies in working with lead government agencies and universities worldwide to protect "crown jewel" intellectual property. The Consortium conducts active programs for the promotion of IP value recognition and protection through cooperation among its corporate members and global government network. It currently operates in Australia, the US, the UK, and the EU.

"We are delighted to have Larry Smarr's brilliance and global scientific reputation added to our Advisory Board. As we add new corporate and government members, I have no doubt that Larry will provide critical wisdom in helping us meet our goals in protecting innovation and enhancing the global economy," said Mark Anderson, SNS CEO and FiRe Chair.

In addition to his role as founding director of (Calit2), Larry Smarr holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006, he received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his lifetime achievements in distributed computing systems.

For more information about INVNT/IP, visit the website: www.invntip.com.

Strategic News Service was founded in 1995 as the first subscriber-based online news service. Its members include Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Mark Hurd, Paul Jacobs, and the top managers in technology and finance companies around the world: Apple, Google, British Telecom, SpaceX, Amazon, Telstra, Oracle, Nuance, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Cisco, Intel, and others. The SNS Global Report is the most accurate publicly ranked predictive newsletter in computing and communications.

SNS founded the FiRe Conference, which the Economist calls "the best technology conference in the world," in 2003. FiRe exposes global thought leaders to new high-potential ideas as part of an accurate portrait of the future. Participants often then create technology-based solutions to current local and global problems.

FiRe 2014 will take place May 20-23 at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, Calif.

Future in Review and Strategic News Service are registered international trademarks.

Media Contacts

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Director of Calit2 Appointed to Advisory Board of Global Consortium