HOUGHTON--David L. House, president of Nortel Networks, a manufacturer of computer networking equipment in Santa Clara, CA, will give the keynote address at Michigan Tech's annual Alumni Reunion August 5-7.
House's presentation, titled "The Internet Tsunami: Revolutionizing the Way We Work, Learn, and Play," is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Friday, August 6, in room 135 of Fisher Hall on the MTU campus.
A 1965 MTU graduate who earned his degree in electrical engineering, House also received a master's degree from Northeastern University and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Michigan Tech in 1998. He has also been honored with the MTU Board of Control Silver Medal.
He began his career with Raytheon in 1965 and later worked with Honeywell before joining Microdata as director of computer development in 1972. He became manager of applications at Intel in 1974.
While at Intel, House focused on microcomputer components. For twelve years he held profit-and-loss responsibility for the now famous Intel chips, ranging from the 286 to the Pentium. He then took on additional responsibilities at Intel and in 1990 was named one of the top 25 most influential executives in the personal computer industry. He also launched the innovative and memorable "Intel Inside" marketing campaign.
After 22 years at Intel, House took over the helm at Bay Networks, a company still wrestling with the after-effects of a 1994 merger. He succeeded in the daunting task of merging the very different corporate cultures from Bay Network's two predecessor companies, one located in Boston and one in Silicon Valley. Bay, in turn, merged with Nortel in 1998, and House was named president of the new entity.
In 1997 he was named one of Corporate America's Most Powerful People by FORBES Magazine. In 1998 he was named by the Computer Museum of Boston as one of the 71 entrepreneurs who have done the most to create the modern world of computing.
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