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THE REGIONAL ALUMNI NEWSLETTER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

NEWSLETTER CONTENTSMAIN EVENT 1

CLUB LEADERSHIP 2SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 4ARTS, FUN, AND SOCIAL 8

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP 11

panies to automate mission-critical business processes - forexample, order fulfillment and inventory management - bymanaging the flow of information across internal IT systemsand the IT systems of their partners and customers. Vitria wentpublic last fall and, at 450 employees, has a market capitaliza-tion has exceeded $4 billion. The rapid growth is attributable, toa large extent, to new ideas and innovations, including the com-pany’s Business-to-Network (B2N) solution that enables com-panies to participate in multiple trading communities andelectronically links multiple exchanges, hubs and trading part-ners.

Dr. JoMei Chang will share with us her strategy for addressingthe challenges of growing from a 5 person startup to the now450-employee B2B giant. She will cover a variety of issues,touching on human resources as culture changes when a firmgrows and repositioning to define markets from middleware toB2N. Join us and learn how a successful firm navigates thepotential pitfalls of rapid growth. The event will include food onthe Vitria campus. Also, a tour of the campus will precede thepresentation.

Dr. Chang founded Vitria Technology in 1994 to help compa-nies automate and optimize their extended enterprise of busi-ness partners and customers. JoMei is firmly focused onbuilding a long-term company that delivers enduring value tocustomers. JoMei’s unusual approach to building a companyhas received wide acclaim. In 1998, Forbes magazine called her“a woman of substance.” Also in 1998, Red Herring magazinehighlighted JoMei as one of their top ten entrepreneurs of theyear, and named Vitria as one of the top 50 private technologycompanies.

Date/Time Location

Tuesday, June 20, 20006:00pm Registration/Dinner6:45pm Campus Tour7:30pm Presentation, Q&A

Vitria Technology Headquarters945 Stewart DriveSunnyvale, CA 94086(408) 212-2700

MIT CNC continues to build its new event series, “GrowingCompanies Successfully.” This series focuses on growing busi-nesses rapidly and effectively in the stage after receiving pro-fessional funding. These events concentrate on companies with$10 to over $100 million in revenue and the process of manag-ing growth through IPO and afterwards. The events cover arange of topics that include: growing departments within a com-pany, managing internal growth issues, responding to competi-tors, expanding geographically, handling mergers andacquisitions, establishing a market presence, and growing a cus-tomer base. This series complement the issues covered in the“New Enterprise Crucible” event series that focuses on the chal-lenges of early stage entrepreneurship.

This month, we are delighted to have Dr. JoMei Chang, CEO ofVitria (NASDAQ:VITR, http://www.vitria.com/), present theirissues on growth. Vitria is a provider of eBusiness infrastructuresoftware that enables incompatible information technology sys-tems to exchange information over corporate networks and theInternet. BusinessWare, Vitria’s flagship product, allows com-

Beyond B2B: Dr. JoMei Chang, President and CEO of Vitria TechnologyThe Network Strategy That Connects Trading Communities, Their Exchanges, Hubs and Trading Partners

Organizer (RSVP/More Info)

Anna Luo G’91asluo@alum.mit.edu

Cost Cash/Credit Card

$15 Pre-paid Members

$20 Others/At Door

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06/02 Fri 10:00am 134th Commencement of MIT at Kilian Court 1106/06 Tue 7:00pm Potluck Dinner - Explorers Meeting in Berkeley Yacht Club 806/10 Sat 1:00pm Plant Tour of South Bayside Wastewater Treatment 506/16 Fri TBA Tour of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 506/18 Sun 11:00am Sunday Hike: Point Reyes Seashore 906/20 Tue 6:00pm Beyond B2B: Dr. JoMei Chang, President & CEO of Vitria 16/22 Tue 6:30pm Automated Model Capture in Extended Urban Environment 46/24 Sat 10:30am Bike Ride to Scenic Tiburon: Meet at Pier 39 96/28 Wed 6:00pm MITCNC Planning Meeting at SGI in Mountain View 307/15 Sat 8:00am YABA’s 2nd Annual San Francisco Treasure Hunt 1007/19 Thu 6:00pm MITCNC Happy Hour at Thirsty Bear in San Francisco 1007/23 Sun 10:00am Sunday Hike: Henry Cowell State Park 907/29 Sat 6:05pm Boston Red Sox vs. Oakland A’s at Oakland Coliseum 908/17 Thu 6:30pm MITCNC Happy Hour at Stoddards in Sunnyvale 1008/20 Sun 11:00am Sunday Hike: Steep Ravine Hike to Stinson Beach 908/26 Sat 8:00pm Tour of Chabot Observatory & Science Center in Oakland 8

2 SUMMER 2000

We provide a forum to foster the community of MIT alumni in NorthernCalifornia through lifelong learning, business and social networking.

Mission Statement of MIT Club of Northern California

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President Evan Matteo ’94 (650) 847-7824 evan@alum.mit.edu

VP - Events William Lyon ’95 (415) 863-2400 lyon@alum.mit.edu

Sports & Recreation John Keen G’94 (650) 933-3401 john.keen@alum.mit.edu

Cultural Sramana Mitra G’95 (408) 467-4205 sramana@alum.mit.edu

Young Alumni/ae Jason Chen ’94 (408) 543-1840 jasonchen@alum.mit.edu

VP - New Enterprise Crucible Tom Darbonne G’91 (408) 544-7169 tdarbonne@alum.mit.edu

VP - Communications Edward Tau '95 (650) 742-6301 edward_tau@alum.mit.edu

Electronic Communications Ping Huang '94 (650) 254-0574 pshuang@alum.mit.edu

VP - Finance Michael Sarfatti '76 (415) 885-2293 sarfatti@alum.mit.edu

VP - Marketing Melissa Kwok '93 (408) 828-3793 mkwok@alum.mit.edu

VP - Career Development Nancy Chan '96 (408) 752-0712 nhchan@alum.mit.edu

VP - Membership Alan Au '97 (650) 621-8505 aau@alum.mit.edu

VP - Sponsorship Cyrus Wadia '96 (650) 424-9900 cyrus@alum.mit.edu

We live at the heart of the digital world, some of you raise aquestion: Do we need a print newsletter? Email accounts arefree, MIT gives us email forwarding addresses and as MITalums, we can certainly understand electronic media.

From talking with you, I hear back that we do need a newsletter.Print is persistent and portable. A newsletter arrives at yourhome and might catch your eye from the coffee table. You cantake it with you to remember where to find an event.

But email has become a vital channelfor the Club. We publish bi-weeklyblasts with just-in-time reminders ofupcoming events. When an excitingevent forms after the newsletterdeadline, email is the best way tospread the news. Unfortunately, wehave email addresses from only 4 of

7 alums living in the area. This means 3000 of you never knewthat Chairman Louis Borders would speak at last month’s Web-van event, or that Ken Morse and Sloan Dean Schmalenseewould be in town for an Entrepreneurship evening at the MenloCircus Club.

Please update your email address and zip code in MIT’s records.You can do this at http://ans.mit.edu. This puts you on our Clubemail list and, as a side benefit, allows school friends to trackyou down. Other lists are available (browse them on the “Mail-ing Lists” section of ANS) and you can unsubscribe at any time.Tell us how to reach you and we promise to keep you pluggedin to the heartbeat of the Club.

Thank you,

Evan Matteo'94President, MITCNC

A Word From Club President, Evan Matteo ’94

Get the latest updates on Club events:http://www.mitcnc.org

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Sabina Ahmed ’90 Financial Staff, Air Touch Roger McCarthy ’77 Chairman, ExponentMukesh Ahuja G’87 CEO, Asia Links Media Denman McNear ’48Thomas Burns ’62 Science Policy Advisor, Chevron John Mikulsky, Jr. ’73 Vice President, Endgate TechnologyJohn Chisholm ’75 President, Customer Satisfaction Bob Muh ’53 Chairman, Sutter SecuritiesPaul Cook ’48 Chairman, SRI International Bill Murray ’67 Manager, ExponentJohn Jarve ’78 General Partner, Menlo Ventures Walter Price, Jr. ’70 Principal, Dresdnetic Global InvestorsHarbo Jensen ’74 Manager, Chevron Corporation Michael Sarfatti ’76 HIA ConsultingGeorge Keller ’57 Elizabeth Seifel ’78 President, Seifel AssociatesSteven Kirsch ’78 Chairman and Founder, Propel Paul Shepard ’53 Land Manager, Cargill SaltRonald Koo ’89 Maxim Integrated Products Joanne Spetz ’90 Public Policy Institute of CaliforniaLeland Mah ’85 Acuson Corp David Weitz ’87 Patent Attorney, Wilson SonsiniChristian Matthews ’43

Louis Borders, Founder and Chairman of Webvan, delivered a sold-out presentation to a capti-vated MITCNC audience at Webvan’s new corporate headquarters in Foster City.

Are you interested in getting moreinvolved in the Club? Do you know aspeaker Club members would enjoyhearing? Do you want to organize anevent about an avocation or vacation?Tell us about it! Or, you may want to hearwhat others are planning and volunteerto help them.

Please join us to help plan events for theclub’s next year, August 2000 to July2001. We will provide a light dinner (soplease RSVP) reception. The meetingitself will consist of brainstormingevents, identifying contacts and gather-ing organizers/volunteers to work onnext year’s events.

If you’ve never organized an eventbefore, don’t worry. You’ll receive per-sonal support and written guidelines tohelp you through the process.

Date/Time Location

WednesdayJun 28, 20006:00 pm

B40 Presentation CenterBuilding 40Silicon Graphics Campus1600 Amphitheatre ParkwayMountain View, CA

Cost Cash/Credit Card

Free All

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

William Lyonlyon@alum.mit.edu(415) 863-2400 x102

Success of MITCNC Depends on You! Plan Activities!Help us continue the tradition in bringing high-quality events to Bay Area alumni

We need ideas for events in various pro-grams: Social & Cultural, YoungAlumni, Technology, Career Manage-ment, Entrepreneurship, Business,Sports & Recreation and East Bay activ-ities. And we’re open to additional sug-gestions.

Please RSVP so the appropriate amountof food can be ordered. However, you’restill welcome to come without an RSVP.If you cannot attend the meeting, butwould like to volunteer or suggest anevent idea, please contact our current VP

of Events, William Lyon atlyon@alum.mit.edu.

4 SUMMER 2000

Environment capture, or “geometricmodeling” - acquiring a representationof an object in a form useful for com-puter simulation - is an essential first stepin visualization, simulation, and com-puter-aided design. Researchers havedeveloped techniques for extracting geo-metric and appearance informationdirectly from photographs. Existingmodel capture tools are manually inten-sive, relying heavily on a “human in theloop” for a variety of tasks. This imposes

fundamental limitations on scale, com-plexity, and capture rates.

This paper describes the development offully automated computer vision tech-niques for capturing textured 3D CADmodels of urban areas directly fromnear-ground photographs. We’ll show anovel sensor which acquires high-resolu-tion, spherical, geo-referenced images,and accompanying algorithms whichextract textured geometric models of theenvironment observed by the sensor. Thetrade-off is that, in return for automation,this task requires specialized sensorinstrumentation, large numbers (typi-cally thousands) of image observations,and significant computational resources.

Eliminating the human in the loop is asignificant challenge from both engi-neering and research standpoints, and theeffort has led to some powerful newtechniques. In contrast to the prevailingview that human intervention alwaysimproves quality, we give examples ofsituations in which our automated sys-tem outperforms a human operator. We

describe the cur-rent status of theproject and showsome preliminaryresults.

Undergraduatestudy in Physicsfirst involved Seth Teller in computergraphics and visualization. After Ph.Dstudy in Computer Science he joinedMIT’s EECS department to pursueresearch in computer graphics, computervision, and computational geometry,with the common theme of acquiring,representing, manipulating and interact-ing with complex geometric datasets.

Date/Time Location

TuesdayJun 22, 20006:30pm

Cafe Iris, Building 5Silicon Graphics Campus2025 Stierlen CourtMountain View, CA

Cost Cash/Credit Card

$25 Pre-paid Active Members

$30 Others/At-Door

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

John Keen G’94john.keen@alum.mit.edu

Automated Model Capture in Extended Urban EnvironmentsDr. Seth Teller, MIT Computer Graphics Group

MITCNC, in conjunction with Community Impact, organized a service project to finish a paint job at the Vis Valley Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club in San Francisco.

Got An Idea For A Club Event?The MITCNC Wants Your Ideas

The MIT Club of Northern Californiaruns between 80 and 100 events yeareach. These events span various catego-ries including entrepreneurial, business,social, cultural, and sports/recreation. Ifyou have suggestions or ideas about theClub, please email it to:

webmaster@mitcnc.org

Each issue of Club’s newsletter covers aseason spanning three months. The sub-mission deadline is one month prior tothe start of the issue coverage. TheClub’s quarterly newsletter schedule isas follows:

Quarterly Newsletter Schedule

Issue Coverage Deadline

Fall Sep-Oct-Nov Aug 1

Winter Dec-Jan-Feb Nov 1

Spring Mar-Apr-May Feb 1

Summer Jun-Jul-Aug May 1

MIT CLUB OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 5

Get an in-depth tour of the South Bay-side System Authority wastewater treat-ment plant in Redwood City. The facilityprocesses about 28 million gallons perday of sewage, removing over 97 percentof all solids, organic material and patho-gens. The sewage goes through 12 stages

of processing before the final effluent isdischarged into the Bay. Biosolids areanaerobically digested and dewatered.The plant is heated almost entirely bymethane that is recovered during thedigestion process. Our tour guide willdiscuss their pilot recycled water pro-gram. There will be ample time for ques-tions and answers after the tour. We willbe outdoors for about half of the tour, sobe prepared in case of inclement weather.

Directions: Take the 101 freeway to theHolly Street/Redwood Shores Parkwayexit in Redwood City. Go east on Red-wood Shores Parkway for about 2.3miles to Radio Road. Turn right on RadioRoad, then turn right at the stop sign andfollow the road through the front gate.

Date/Time Location

SaturdayJun 10, 20001:00 pm

South Bayside System Authority 1400 Radio RoadRedwood City, CA

Cost

Free All

Organizer and More Info

Sue Kayton ’78kayton@alum.mit.edu(650) 853-1711

Wastewater Treatment Plant Tour

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JOB POSTINGS EMAIL LIST

Periodically, we will send out jobopportunity postings and job-related information over thenewly created mitcnc-jobs elec-tronic mailing list. If you wouldlike to subscribe to the mitcnc-jobs mailing list, send email to<mitcnc-jobs-request@mit.edu>with “subscribe mitcnc-jobs” inthe body of the message (NOTthe subject line). If you want tosubscribe a specific emailaddress, you can say “subscribemitcnc-jobsEMAIL_ADDRESS”.

Discover the world of Big Science! VisitNova, the world’s largest laser! Comevisit the Lawrence Livermore NationalLab!

Lawrence Livermore National Labora-tory (LLNL) is a U.S. Department ofEnergy national laboratory operated bythe University of California. LawrenceLivermore's mission is to apply scienceand technology in the national interest,

with a focus on global security, globalecology, and bioscience. Laboratoryemployees are working with industrialand academic partners to increasenational economic competitiveness andimprove science education. The Labora-tory's mission is dynamic and haschanged over the years.

Inside the Lawrence Livermore Lab’sVisitors Center visitors will find displaysrepresenting the Lab’s programs onnational security, lasers, chemistry,energy and the biosciences, as well asinformation on the Lab’s history as oneof the pioneers in national research anddevelopment. Throughout the year, tour-ing displays from the Department ofEnergy and other agencies are featured.Videos, including an overview of the Laband highlights of major news storiesabout our scientific achievements canalso be viewed at the center.

Participants must be U.S. citizens at least18 years of age. The MIT Club will pro-vide transportation from Palo Alto. For

details, check out the MIT Club websiteevents page at http://www.mitcnc.org.

Date/Time Location

FridayJun 16, 2000TBA

Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryMeet in Palo Alto for group transportation

Cost Cash/Credit Card

$10 Pre-paid Active Members

$15 Others/At Door

Organizer and More Info

Eric Jorgensen ’60ericjorg@aimnet.comPatricia Cheng ’98pcheng@alum.mit.edu

Tour of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

6 SUMMER 2000

Sloan School Hosts Bay Area Reception On Wednesday, April 26, 2000, MIT Sloan School of Manage-ment and MIT Entrepreneurship Center hosted a Bay Areareception at the prestigious Menlo Circus Club in Menlo Park.The keynote speakers were Dick Schmalensee, Dean of theSloan School, and Ken Morse, Managing Director of the MITEntrepreneurship Center. Dean Schmalensee outlined his strat-egy to “enhance the value of shares in MIT” to a sold-out audi-ence of over 300 alumni, guests, and industry sponsors.

The event was made possible through the generous sponsorshipof the following firms:

• Early Bird Ventures• MarketSoft Corporation• Media3k• Menlo Ventures• One Motorola Ventures• Propel• Sanderling Ventures• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

MIT CLUB OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 7

Featuring Sloan Dean Dick Schmalensee

CFMIMITYM“Cash Flow Is More Important Than YourMother.”

- Famous Quote from theSloan School of Management

8 SUMMER 2000

The Explorers Club, Northern CaliforniaChapter, will hold a Potluck Dinner June6th at the Berkeley Yacht Club, startingat 7PM. The purposes of the evening willbe to socialize and to introduce prospec-tive members to the Explorers Club.There will be three short talks by current

members and lots of time to visit withfriends or meet some new ones. So if youare an explorer or interested in explora-tion, please join us.

The cost will be $5 per person. Bringdrinks and food to share. We’ll want ageneral head count, so please call or e-mail Lesley Ewing, Program Chair, withyour RSVP. As a general suggestion toavoid everyone bringing meatloaf....

• A to E: Salad

• F to L: Entree

• M to Z: Dessert

Bring a beverage or buy something at theYacht Club Bar.

Directions: Take the University Exitfrom I-80, and go west towards to Bay.Continue straight on University until theBerkeley Pier stretches out towards thesunset before you. Turn right; the Berke-ley Yacht Club is at the end of the road,adjacent to the harbor’s entrance.

Date/Time Location

Jun 6, 20007:00 pm

The Berkeley Yacht Club1 Seawall DriveBerkeley, CA (510) 540-9167

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

Lesley Ewing lewing@costal.ca.gov(510) 527-7899 (Home)(415) 904-5291 (Work)

Potluck Dinner - Calling All Explorers

Chabot Space & Science Center is thecontinuation and expansion of a publicobservatory that has served San Fran-cisco Bay Area schools and citizens withastronomy and science education pro-grams for over 115 years. The institutionbegan in 1883 as the Oakland Observa-tory, through a gift from Anthony Chabot

to the school district of the City of Oak-land. The original Oakland Observatorywas located in downtown Oakland, andprovided public telescope viewing forthe community. For decades, it alsoserved as the official timekeeping stationfor the entire Bay Area, measuring timewith its transit telescope.

The new Chabot Space & Science Centeris an 86,000-square-foot, state-of-the-artscience and technology education facil-ity on a 13-acre site in the hills of Oak-land, California. Construction is nearingcompletion and the facility is slated toopen in summer 2000.

The 86,000 square foot Science Center’sattractions will include:

• Chabot’s historic 8-inch and 20-inchtelescopes and a new 36-inch reflec-tor, the largest public telescope in theU.S.

• A 250-seat planetarium, the mostadvanced in the world.

• A 210-seat large-screen domedMegamax Science Theatre (similar toOMNIMAX theatre).

• An outdoor 150-seat amphitheatre,nestled into the hillside.

• A multimedia technology lab and vir-tual science center.

Please meet at Pluto’s in Palo Alto forcarpooling or meet us at the Observatoryby 8:00 pm. Wear a red (or MIT) shirt.Ask for Jason Chen.

Date/Time Location

SaturdayAug 26, 20008:00 pm

Chabot Space & Science Center10902 Skyline Blvd. Oakland, CA

Cost Pay At Door

$5 All

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

Jason Chenjasonchen@alum.mit.edu

Trip to the New Chabot Observatory & Science Center

Event facilities have been generously provided bySGI in Mountain View. MITCNC is extremelygrateful to have this ongo-ing sponsorship and sup-port from this industrypartner.

MIT CLUB OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 9

Sunday HikesDate/Time Location

SundayJun 18, 200011:00 am

Point Reyes Seashore9 miles, 400’ elevation

Walk along coastal bluffs and beaches. Nice ocean breezes make for a cool hike in spec-tacular surroundings.

Date/Time Location

SundayJul 23, 200010:00 am

Henry Cowell State Park7 miles, 1000’ elevation

Huge redwoods give us nice shade on a hot day. Sorta like Big Basin, but without all the crowds.

Date/Time Location

SundayAug 20, 200011:00 am

Steep Ravine Hike to Stin-son Beach8 miles, 1500’ elevation

Our annual pilgrimage to the Steep Ravine trail, arguably the most spectacular place in the Bay Area. Creeks, waterfalls, dense ferns and redwoods, and a trail segment so steep that it has a ladder! We stop in Stin-son Beach for lunch, a dip in the Pacific and a nice break before the big climb.

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

Jim Reich ’89jreich@alum.mit.edu(650) 969-4558

Note: Please check the website after 8:30 am on the morning of the hike for weather cancellations.

Full information and driving directions can be found on the hiking web site:http://home.earthlink.net/~jreich/mithikes.htm

This is the 3rd Annual MITCNC biketrip for both the Speedy Gonzales and theleisurely type bike riders. The route isabout 15 miles. We’ll be starting at Pier39, going through the aquatic park, FortMason, Presidio Park, over the GoldenGate bridge, downtown Sausalito andthen near the water all the way to Tibu-ron. We’ll be taking the ferry back to Pier39. The ferry ticket for adults is $5.50,for children $2.75. We’ll be taking the2:45 pm or 4:05 pm ferry back (depend-ing on what people want to do).

In Tiburon, we’ll be eating lunch (around1:00 pm) at Rooney’s Cafe and Grill onMain St. in Tiburon. After lunch, we willsample some dessert wine at the WindsorTasting Room right next door. After

Date/Time Location

SaturdayJun 24, 200010:30 am

Meet by Ticket counter for Alcatraz by Pier 39

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

Ross Yu ’95rossayu@yahoo.com

Bike Ride to Scenic Tiburonsome wine tasting, we will cool off withice cream.

For those who don’t have bikes, you canrent bikes at the Blazing Saddles store byColumbus Avenue and Francisco Street(very close to Pier 39). Their phone num-ber is (415) 202-8888 and their web pageis http://www.blazingsaddles.com. Thebike rentals run around $25-$45 daydepending on what type of bike youwant.

The MIT Club of Northern Californiadoes not assume any responsibility forany personal injuries or property damagesuffered during this event. Cycling is asport which has inherent risks. Each par-ticipant is entirely responsible for beingaware of these risks and taking necessaryprecautions.

The following items will be useful dur-ing the bike ride: water bottles, sunblock, snack food, money to spend alongthe way (e.g., at restaurants), sweater (towear on the ferry ride back).

The Boston Red Sox are going to be intown for one of their two trips to the BayArea and we’ve got tickets at a greatprice. If you became a Red Sox fan dur-ing your years at MIT or if you’re just abaseball fan in general, come out to seeNomar Garciaparra, Pedro Martinez, andthe rest of the Red Sox play Ben Grieve,Eric Chavez, and the A’s. The Red Sox

are coming off a playoff season and theA’s have some of the best young playersin the game.

Join other baseball mad MIT alums atNetwork Asso-ciates Coliseumon July 29, 20006:05pm. Wehave a block ofseats at fieldlevel on the firstbase side. Lastyear over 50alumni andfriends had agreat time at thisevent, so act fastbefore ticketssell out.

Date/Time Location

SaturdayJul 29, 20006:05pm

Network Associates ColiseumOaklan, CA

Cost Pay At Door

$9 Prepaid Members

$12

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

John Chandyjchandy@alum.mit.edu

Boston Red Sox vs. Oakland A’s

10 SUMMER 2000

MITCNC Happy HoursFree Appetizers Offered at Happy Hour in San Francisco!

Take a break from work! Join us to havea great evening while savoring ThirstyBear’s hand-crafted beers and theiraward winning Spanish cuisine, tapas.Also a great opportunity to meet otheralumni who live or work in the city.

Free Appetizers Offered at Happy Hour in Sunnyvale!

Date/Time Location

ThursdayJul 19, 20006:00 pm

Thirsty Bear661 Howard StreetSan Francisco, CA 94105(415) 974-0905

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

William Lyon G’95lyon@alum.mit.edu

Date/Time Location

ThursdayAug 17, 20006:30 pm

Stoddards111 S. Murphy AvenueSunnyvale, CA(408) 733-7824

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

Sang Park ’94sparkie@alum.mit.edu(510) 206-9373

Want to meet other recent college gradu-ates, learn more about San Francisco’scolorful history and hidden byways,solve clues, get some exercise and attend

Date/Time Location

Saturday Jul 15, 20008:00 am

Across the City of San Francisco

Cost Register at Website

$10 All

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

Andrew Cohenacohen@netwizards.net

YABA Second Annual Treasure Hunt

Young Alumni of the Bay Area (YABA) is an association of young alumni rep-resenting Bay Area alumni clubs from twenty universities across the country.The purpose of YABA is to hold social and community service events on a reg-ular basis that give participating alumni a chance to meet other young people inthe area who share similar collegiate experiences. Check out YABA’s web sitefor a updated calendar of events:

http://www.yaba.san-francisco.ca.us

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HarvardJohns HopkinsMichiganMITPennsylvania

PrincetonSmithStanfordTulaneUCLA

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a great party, all on the same day? Thenyou should play in the second annualYABA Treasure Hunt!

Last year more than 80 people searchedthe Financial District, Union Square, theEmbarcadero, Chinatown, North Beach,Telegraph Hill and Nob Hill for clues(and cold pints). The top three teamswere awarded with amazing prizes(think you hugging Regis…well, maybenot that amazing) and all teams cele-brated at a post-hunt party fully stockedwith beer, soda and snacks.

Tennis Network

Looking for a tennis buddy to pick up agame of tennis? Instead of planningnumerous tennis tournaments or events,the tennis network will be a database oftennis players. Initially, the network willtry to match up people who are interestedin playing singles or doubles tennis withplayers of similar skill level. Oncematched, it will be up to the people tocontact each other directly and arrange amatch time themselves.

To participate in the tennis network data-base, please e-mail

1. Name

2. Phone and e-mail

3. Singles/Doubles

4. Tennis skill:Beginner (never played or onlyplayed a couple of times) Intermediate (play once in a while,maybe a bit in HS, etc.)Advanced

Organizer (RSVP and More Info)

Lawrence Chao ’98lpchao@alum.mit.edu

MIT CLUB OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 11

Alumna Carle-ton “Carly” S.Fiorina, presi-dent and chiefexecutiveofficer ofHewlett-Pack-ard Co., willspeak at MIT'sCommence-ment cere-mony onFriday, June 2,

2000. The Sloan School graduate hasbeen named the most powerful woman incorporate America by Fortune magazinetwo years in a row.

Ms. Fiorina last year took over the helmof Hewlett-Packard (HP), the second-largest computer maker in the world.Four years ago, she spearheadedLucent's initial public offering and sub-sequent spin-off from AT&T, one of thelargest and most successful IPOs on

record. She then became president ofLucent's global service group.

“Leadership is a matter of vision, wis-dom, organization, stamina and charisma-- and Carly Fiorina brings all this andmore to her role as CEO of Hewlett-Packard,” said President Charles M. Vestin announcing that Ms. Fiorina will bethe speaker at the Institute's graduationceremony.

“We look to our Commencement speak-ers not only to address the importantissues, opportunities and responsibilitiesthat our graduates will face, but to serveas models of the kind of leaders we hopethey will become. I am delighted thatCarly has accepted our invitation andlook forward to hearing her remarks toour graduates and families,” he said.

Ms. Fiorina joins a very eclectic group ofCommencement speakers at the Institutein recent years, comprising national andworld leaders and MIT graduates who

are leaders of industry, research and evenradio comedy.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi -- MIT alumnibetter known as Click and Clack of CarTalk, their National Public Radio pro-gram -- spoke last year. President Clintonspoke at the 1998 Commencement,along with the world-renowned AIDSresearcher Dr. David Ho, who receivedthe MD in 1978 from the Harvard-MITDivision of Health Sciences and Tech-nology. In 1997 Kofi Annan (SM 1972),secretary general of the United Nations,gave the Commencement address; VicePresident Al Gore did so in 1996.

Ms. Fiorina is the second Hewlett-Pack-ard executive and MIT alumni to beMIT's Commencement speaker. Com-pany cofounder William R. Hewlett,then vice chairman of the board of direc-tors, spoke in 1986.

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