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Dr. Pate-Cornell is the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where she is Professor and Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering. She also is a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Stanford Institute for International Studies. Dr. Pate-Cornell is a world leader in research related to engineering risk analysis, risk management, decision analysis under uncertainty, and more generally, the use of Bayesian probability to process incomplete information. In recent years, her research and that of her Engineering Risk Research Group at Stanford have focused on the inclusion of both technical and organizational factors in probabilistic risk analysis models. These models have been applied to a wide variety of topics, ranging from the risk management of the NASA shuttle tiles to that of offshore oil platforms and medical systems such as anesthesia during surgery. She is currently working on risk management processes for complex projects and programs, with application to space, industrial and medical systems. Since 2001, she has applied risk analytic methods to the study of different types of terrorist attacks on the United States, the assessment of intelligence information and the effectiveness of counter measures. Dr. Pate-Cornell was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995, and is currently a member of its Council. She serves on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board since December 2001. She is currently a member of the Advisory Council of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 2002, and the Board of Trustees of the Aerospace Corporation since December 2004. She chairs the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School on which she has served since 1998. She has also served as a member of the Army Science Board, of the NASA Advisory Council and of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. She was elected to the French Academie des Technologies in 2003. Dr. Pate-Cornell is a past president (1995) and a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, and a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). She has been a consultant to industrial firms and government organizations, including, recently, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. She is the author or co-author of more than a hundred papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. She has received several best-paper awards from professional organizations such as the American Nuclear Society and the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS (for her work on the shuttle tiles), and peer-reviewed journals such as Military Operations Research in 2002 for a paper on the assessment of terrorist threats. She has been invited to give many keynote addresses and has taught in executive-education programs for several years. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Engineering-Economic Systems and a M.S. degree in Operations Research, both from Stanford University, a MS and Engineer degree in applied mathematics and Computer Science from the Institut Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, and a BS degree in mathematics and physics from Marseille, France.

Paul Cook, a renowned business and technology leader for more than 50 years, serves as chairman of the board of Promptu. Throughout his career, Cook has demonstrated the ability to bring innovative technology to market. In 1957, Cook founded Raychem Corporation, where he served as CEO for more than 33 years. During his tenure at Raychem, he led the company to membership in the Fortune 500, as well as to $1 billion in annual sales and annual company sales increases of 20 percent per year for 25 years. Cook retired from Raychem as CEO in 1990 and as chairman of the board in 1995. After retiring from Raychem, Cook founded and led other emerging innovative technology companies. He invested in and served as CEO and chairman of the board of CellNet Data Systems, a developer of a wireless system to automate the distribution of electricity for electric utility companies. Then, in 1995, he founded and became chairman and CEO of DIVA Systems Corporation, a provider of Video On Demand services to the cable industry. Cook also served as chairman of the board of SRI International, one of the world's largest contract research firms employing more than 2,000 professionals working in over 100 disciplines in the areas of engineering, science and technology, and business and policy. Additionally, he was Chairman of the Sarnoff Corporation (formerly RCA Labs) a wholly owned subsidiary of SRI. Sarnoff is considered one of the world's premier television and electronic imaging research and development organizations. Cook is a graduate of MIT with a degree in chemical engineering. He is one of ten Americans awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1988 by President Reagan, in recognition of his technical accomplishments and business leadership in the field of radiation chemistry. He is also the recipient of the Winthrop-Sears Medal from the Chemical Industry and the Golden Omega Award from the Electrical/Electronics Insulation Conference (EEIC) for important contributions to technological progress. Cook has also been named to the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame by the Bay Area Council of California and was cited as being among the most successful and prolific innovators and entrepreneurs in the history of the Silicon Valley.