Alan Eustace

Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research

Google

Alan Eustace is one of Google's senior vice presidents of engineering. He joined Google in the summer of 2002. Prior to Google, Alan spent 15 years at Digital/Compaq/HP's Western Research Laboratory where he worked on a variety of chip design and architecture projects, including the MicroTitan Floating Point unit, BIPS – the fastest microprocessor of its era. Alan also worked with Amitabh Srivastava on ATOM, a binary code instrumentation system that forms the basis for a wide variety of program analysis and computer architecture analysis tools. These tools had a profound influence on the design of the EV5, EV6 and EV7 chip designs. Alan was promoted to director of the Western Research Laboratory in 1999. WRL had active projects in pocket computing, chip multi-processors, power and energy management, internet performance, and frequency and voltage scaling.

In addition to directing Google's engineering efforts, Alan is actively involved in a number of Google's community-related activities such as The Second Harvest Food Bank and the Anita Borg Scholarship Fund.

Alan is an author of 9 publications and holds 10 patents. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Central Florida.

Alan also sits on the Anita Borg Institute Board of Trustees.

DETAILS ABOUT THIS AUCTION

In this auction you are bidding on a 2-hour lunch meeting with Alan Eustace. 

This will take place at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

The winning bidder has the option of inviting up to 3 additional colleagues to attend the lunch meeting.

The lunch meeting should be scheduled before December 1, 2008, and will be based around Alan’s availability. 

The winners’ eBay screen name (not first and last name) will be announced at the Women of Vision Awards banquet on May 8, 2008.  You do not need to be present at this event to win.

The winner must participate in a brief phone meeting with ABI staff before the lunch meeting can be scheduled.

Once payment has been received, the winners’ contact information will be sent to Alan for scheduling purposes.

All funds raised through this auction will be donated to the Anita Borg Institute.

ABOUT THE ANITA BORG INSTITUTE (ABI)

Through our work every day, the Anita Borg Institute seeks to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology, and increase the positive impact of technology on the world’s women.

Since 1995, ABI has developed tools and programs designed to help industry, academia and government recruit, retain and develop women technology leaders. By providing inclusive platforms designed to ensure women’s voices, ideas and spirits will result in higher levels of technical innovation, ABI delivers programs that are changing the world for women and for technology.

For more information about ABI, please visit www.anitaborg.org

ABOUT THE WOMEN OF VISION AWARDS BANQUET

This auction is taking place in conjunction with our 3^rd annual Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards Banquet. The Women of Vision Awards honor women making significant contributions to technology in three categories: Innovation, Leadership, and Social Impact. Nominees are submitted by high-tech companies, universities, private industry, and the public, with one winner selected in each category. This year we are proud to honor:

• Innovation Award Winner: Helen Greiner, Co-founder and Chairman, iRobot
• Social Impact Award Winner: Susan Landau, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• Leadership Award Winner: Justine Cassell, Professor, Northwestern University

For more information about the Women of Vision Awards, please visit www.anitaborg.org/wov.

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