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Becoming an Entrepreneur in Science and Technology

Panel Discussion

Wednesday, December 5

3:30pm

Tech Center 111

Professor Yuan Shi and Professor Sanford Sorkin

Everything you ever wanted to know about starting a business with a technology focus (and making lots of money). Each of the panelists will make a short presentation at the beginning of the discussion, and then the panel will take questions from the audience.

Professor Yuan Shi ( Associate Professor & Chair, CIS Department) is the founder and Chief Science Officer of Parallel Computers Technology, Inc. (www.pcticorp.com), a 10-year-old Philadelphia-based research and development company that provides cluster-based solutions for storage and distributed computation.

Professor Sanford Sorkin (Instructor, CIS Department) is the founder of, and for 22 years the owner of several companies, including Coastal Technologies (www.coastaltech.com), a development consulting firm; New Instruction, Inc. (www.newinstruction.com), a technology training firm; and WebsFirst (www.websfirst.com), a Web development and consulting firm.