Robert M. White

Read Rite Corp. is one of the three major independent suppliers of magnetic recording heads for the hard disk drive and tape drive markets. The Company designs, manufactures and markets magnetic recording heads as head gimbal assemblies and incorporate multiple head gimbal assemblies into head stack assemblies. The Company is a market leader in providing magnetoresistive and inductive tape heads to the entry level through mid-range tape drive markets. The Company operates in an industry with limited visibility. It is located in Fremont, CA.

Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users

Xerox Corp. engages in the integration of paper and digital products. The firm offers home, office, office laser, multifunction and all in one printer, digital sheet-fed printing presses and scanner. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Zilog, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets micrologic semiconductor products for embedded control and communication applications worldwide. It provides semiconductor devices that its customers design into their end products. Its devices combine a microprocessor memory and input and output functions on a single device. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ONTRACK Data International, Inc. provided computer data recovery services. It provided the industry's widest range of data recovery products and data recovery service solutions, providing desktop, laptop, server, email, database and tape recoveries for all media types and operating systems. The company was founded by Michael Rogers, John Pence and Gary Stevens in 1985. It was headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN.

Part of Xerox Holdings Corp., Palo Alto Research Center LLC is a research company that focuses on breakthrough innovation and future technology. The private company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company's research includes AI, novel printing, HMI, digital workplace, IoT, and more.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The private company is based in Washington.