Linkabit was a technology company founded in 1968 by Irwin M. Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and Leonard Kleinrock. Linkabit created a large number of technology companies, most notably, Qualcomm. Linkabit is currently a division of L-3 Communications.^[1]

Corporate history[link]

Linkabit Corporation was formed in mid-1968 in Los Angeles by Irwin M. Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and Leonard Kleinrock (who soon left). ^[2]

One of the better known Linkabit products is VideoCipher, an analog scrambling system for television developed in 1983.

Linkabit hosted the first IETF meeting in January, 1986.^[3]

More than 75 direct or indirect Linkabit spinoff companies have been identified — a rate twice that of Fairchild Semiconductor, the legendary progenitor of Silicon Valley. ^[4]

The best known Linkabit spinoff is Qualcomm, which was founded by Jacobs, Viterbi and five other Linkabit alumni in July 1985.^[2]

All three Linkabit founders have received National Medals for lifetime achievements. ^[5]

References[link]

Vivek Ranadivé (/vɪˈvɛk rɑːnəˈdiːveɪ/ vi-VEK rah-nə-DEE-vay) is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, philanthropist, and sports team owner.^[1] Ranadivé is the founder and CEO of TIBCO, a multi-billion dollar real-time computing company, and is credited with digitizing Wall Street in the 1980's with his first company, Teknekron Software Systems.^[2][3] Ranadivé is also the co-owner of the Golden State Warriors.^[4][5]

Early life and education[link]

Ranadivé grew up in the Juhu area of Bombay, India and was the youngest of three children.^[6][7] As a child, one of Ranadive’s dreams was to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which he learned of through a documentary on the institution.^[1] Described as "a true visionary in a valley full of seers," by the August 10, 2004 issue of Information Age, he was inspired at the age of 17 to leave India to pursue an education in the United States of America. At 17, Ranadivé was accepted to MIT, but in the 70’s the Indian government did not release foreign currency for citizens to study abroad.^[8] Ranadivé camped outside the office of the governor of the Reserve Bank of India until they gave him $50 – just enough to get him through one semester at MIT.^[8]

After earning both a Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT in four years, he obtained an MBA from Harvard University in 1983 where he was a Baker Scholar.^[9][10] While still in college at MIT, Ranadivé started his first company, a UNIX consulting company.^[8] He also held management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M/A-Com Linkabit, and Fortune Systems immediately after college.^[11]

Teknekron Software Systems[link]

Teknekron Corp., a technology incubator, provided $250,000 in seed capital to Vivek Ranadivé in 1985; in 1986, Teknekron Software Systems was born.^[12] Frustrated by how software seemed to always under-deliver, while hardware was always on time and under budget, Ranadivé set out to build software based on the premise of a "Software Bus" (which later became known as "The Information Bus," a.k.a. TIB). In technology, a “bus” is the standard data highway by which various elements communicate (in a computer system, this refers to the communication between the CPU, the memory, the I/O devices, etc).^[13] The Software Bus concept would allow for the tight coupling of applications. In 1987, Teknekron Software Systems was spun off into an independent company.^[12]

In 1986, Teknekron embarked on a consulting project with Goldman Sachs to redefine the "trading floor of the future.”^[14][15] In 1987, the first TIB — for the integration and delivery of market data such as stock quotes, news and other financial information — went live at Fidelity, followed by First Interstate Bank and Salomon, eventually digitizing all of Wall Street.^[9] Teknekron was later acquired by Reuters in 1994 to expand its use of the Information Bus in the financial services markets.^[16][13]

TIBCO[link]

In 1997, Ranadivé founded TIBCO Software Inc. with funding from Cisco and Reuters.^[17] He began to apply the real-time software that he developed at Teknekron to other industries; in TIBCO’s first year, they crossed $50 million in revenue and teamed with CBS Sportsline to enable real-time news of all major sporting events, including the NFL, NBA, and PGA.^[18][19] In 1999, TIBCO’s revenues were $100 million, leading them to file for an IPO on the NASDAQ.^[20][21]

Currently, TIBCO is active in a wide range of markets including retail (FedEx and Amazon.com), manufacturing, financials (Chicago Mercantile Exchange, NASDAQ, and Goldman Sachs), the military (the Department of Defense, United States Department of Homeland Security), airlines (Delta), and tech companies (iPhone activation with AT&T, eBay).^{[1][22][12][23][24]} By 2011, Ranadivé had grown TIBCO's annual revenues to $920 million and its customer base to 4,000.^[25][26][27]

Current ventures[link]

Golden State Warriors[link]

Ranadivé is a longtime basketball fan, which started when he coached his daughter's middle school basketball team.^[28] The team played in the national championship and Ranadivé's coaching success was documented by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker.^[2] In 2010, Ranadive became the co-owner and vice chairman of the Golden State Warriors, making him the first person of Indian descent to own an NBA franchise.^[29]

Ranadivé plans to transform the Warriors using the same real-time technology that transformed the business world.^[30][31][32] He states that "I see basketball as being the 21st century sport and the Warriors becoming the team of the 21st century.”^[28] In 2011, Ranadivé spearheaded Bollywood Night, which was the first time a live NBA game was broadcast in India.^[33]

TopLink[link]

At the 2012 World Economic Forum in Davos, Ranadivé, along with WEF’s founder and chairman Klaus Schwab, launched TopLink, a private social network for world leaders.^[1][3][34] Ranadivé's goal is to "unlock the collective wisdom of the world’s best and brightest" with TopLink, which is a highly-secure version of TIBCO’s social networking platform tibbr.^[35] Users of the network, which has been described as a combination Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, texting, and Skype, can hold group video conferences, ask questions, and discuss ways to solve world issues.^[35][36][37]

Works[link]

In 1999, Ranadivé published The Power of Now with a foreword by Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy which details how winning companies sense and respond to change using real-time technology.^[38][39] The book was a New York Times bestseller.^[13]

In 2006, Ranadivé published The Power to Predict with a foreword from FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith which explores how companies can break new ground in their quest to anticipate customers' needs, capture new opportunities, and predict and avoid problems.^[40] The book was an international bestseller and was profiled in Forbes, Harvard Business School, and The Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney.^{[41][42][43][44][45]}

In 2011, Ranadivé published The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future–Just Enough, which reveals how our understanding of human mastery is being applied to the way computers "think."^[46][47] The book was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller and was reviewed positively by David Stern and Marc Andreessen.^{[48][49][50][51]}

Personal life[link]

Ranadivé has three children: Aneel, Andre, and Anjali.^[2] He enjoys playing golf, cycling, tennis, hiking, and has a black belt in Tae Kwan Do.^[8]

Awards[link]

• 2005 Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award (WIBTA): North America Technology Change Agent Award;
• InfoWorld's 2002 Top Ten Technology Innovators
• 2002 Ernst & Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year
• 2008 South Asian CEO of the Year by the South Asian MBA Association (SAMBAA)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Vivek Ranadivé

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Vivek Ranadive

• TIBCO Software Inc. Official Vivek Ranadivé bio
• Driving the Information Bus:Vivek Ranadivé
• TUCON 2010 Keynote 1
• TUCON 2010 Keynote 2
• TUCON 2010 Keynote 3

Mark Irwin, A.S.C. / C.S.C.
Born	Mark Irwin (1950-09-01) September 1, 1950 (age 61) Toronto, Canada
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1974-present
Website
http://www.irwincine.com/

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Mark Irwin, A.S.C., C.S.C. (born August 1, 1950) is a Canadian cinematographer. He was born in Toronto. His credits run to over one hundred films.

Notable Filmography[link]

• Chromosome 3 (1979)
• Scanners (1981)
• Videodrome (1983)
• The Fly (1986)
• The Blob (1988)
• Tales from the Crypt (1 episode, 1990 - My Brother's Keeper)
• RoboCop 2 (1990)
• Passenger 57 (1992)
• Dumb & Dumber (1994)
• The Mighty Ducks 2 (1994)
• Scream (1996/I)
• Kingpin (1996)
• There's Something About Mary (1998)
• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
• Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
• Road Trip (2000)
• Osmosis Jones (2001)
• American Pie 2 (2001)
• Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
• Scary Movie 3 (2003)
• Old School (2003)
• Big Momma's House 2 (2006)
• Grandma's Boy (2006)
• Dance Flick (2009)

External links[link]

• Mark Irwin at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website

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