Thank you Champ for sharing this information. Dr. Dean is indeed an important contributor who plays a significant role in building bridges over the "Digital-Divide".
William M. 'Bill' Thompson, MSM Mentor and Practitioner Faculty Member Graduate and Undergraduate Courses University of Phoenix Former UBAM Campus College Chair Fort Lauderdale Campuses 561/212-7055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:00 AM I was just sent this article, published January 2004 about Dr. Mark Dean, Vice President and IBM Fellow Systems Research http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_195.shtml "See, Dr. Mark Dean is a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is in the National Hall of Inventors. He has more than 30 patents pending. He is a vice president with IBM. Oh, yeah. And he is also the architect of the modern-day personal computer. Dr. Dean holds three of the original nine patents on the computer that all PCs are based upon. And, Dr. Mark Dean is an African American." And later in the article: "More important, stories like Dr. Mark Dean's should serve as inspiration for African-American children. Already victims of the "Digital Divide" and failing school systems, young, Black kids might embrace technology with more enthusiasm if they knew someone like Dr. Dean was already leading the way." If you want to learn more about Dr. Dean, here is the IBM biosketch http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/deanm/ Black History Month is coming up! Siobhan Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS Community Outreach Liaison National Network of Libraries of Medicine - MidContinental Region Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 402-280-4156/800-338-7657 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site) http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell (Digital Divide Network Profile) _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
