CAUSE '98 General Session

An EDUCAUSE Conference on Information Technology in Higher Education
December 8-11, 1998
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
Seattle, Washington

General Session Speakers

Steve Jobs
8:00 A.M. Wednesday

(RealVideo -- 56k)

Steve Jobs is Chairman and CEO of Pixar, the Academy-Award-winning computer animation studios which he co-founded in 1986. Pixar's first feature film, Toy Story, was released by Walt Disney Pictures in November 1995 and became the highest domestic grossing film released that year and the third highest grossing animated film of all time.

Before Pixar, Steve co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. where he co-designed the Apple II computer, led the development and marketing of the Macintosh computer, and oversaw the growth of Apple into a two billion dollar company. Steve also co-founded NeXT Software, which was recently acquired by Apple.

Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Reagan in 1985, the Jefferson Award for Public Service in 1987, and was named Entrepreneur of the Decade in 1989 by Inc. Magazine.

Steve grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and still lives there with his wife and three children.

Molly Broad
8:00 A.M. Thursday

(RealVideo -- 56k)

Molly Corbett Broad is president of the University of North Carolina and serves as chief executive officer of all 16 of North Carolina’s public institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees. Active in a number of professional and civic organizations, Broad has written and spoken widely on strategic planning for higher education and on emerging technologies. She serves on a variety of boards, including those for the International Council for Distance Education and the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development. She also sits on several advisory boards, including those of the Mellon Foundation and the National Technology Task Force.

Prior to her presidency in North Carolina, Broad served as executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer of the California State University system. Before that, she was executive director and chief executive officer of the Arizona Board of Regents, serving as the top administrator for Arizona’s three-campus university system. Prior to her tenure in Arizona, Broad worked at Syracuse University in a number of roles, including director of institutional research and vice president for government and corporate relations.

Charles Garfield
10:30 A.M. Friday

Charles Garfield is a leading authority on achievement and serves as a strategy advisor to America’s preeminent business leaders. He is the author of the Time magazine bestseller Peak Performers, and Second to None, his latest book. Garfield writes from experience. As a mathematician and computer analyst, he led the team of engineers, scientists, and support staff on the Apollo XI project which landed the first two astronauts on the moon.

Garfield was named National Activist of the year for his work in founding the Shanti Project, an international prototype for AIDS and cancer volunteer organizations. As an athlete, he developed himself in weight lifting to world-class levels and wrote Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World’s Greatest Athletes. Garfield has addressed such audiences as the head coaches of the U.S. Olympic Teams, the leadership of Oklahoma City after the bombing of the federal building there, and a Clinton White House Conference as keynote speaker. He currently serves as clinical professor at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco.