Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware, one of the
nation's fastest-growing software
companies, will be the honored guest and speaker on
Tuesday, April 7, at a technology management
lecture and award program established by a Johns Hopkins
graduate and his wife.
This year's Sydney and Mitzi Blumenthal Lecture and
Award for Contributions to Management in
Technology program will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Room B17 of
the Computational Science and Engineering Building on the
Homewood campus.
Maritz is a former Microsoft vice president and a
leader in business technology. His lecture is
titled "The Importance of Platforms: What Software, the
Internet, Information and Microfinance
Have in Common."
Nick Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting
School of Engineering, will welcome the
audience and later present the Blumenthal Award to Maritz.
Mitzi Blumenthal is scheduled to present
opening remarks, and then Scott Smith, chair of the Department of Computer
Science, will introduce
Maritz. The program will be followed by a reception,
providing refreshments and an opportunity to
meet the speaker.
The event is named for Sydney Blumenthal, who earned
an electrical engineering degree at
Johns Hopkins in 1937 and went on to become chairman of the
Blumenthal-Khan Electrical Limited
Partnerships, a contracting company based in Owings Mills,
Md.
In 1993, he and his wife, Mitzi, endowed the award and
lecture to enrich the educational
experience at Johns Hopkins. The lecture allows students to
hear distinguished speakers talk about
subjects such as business management, entrepreneurship, law
and ethics and how these topics apply to
engineering and technology.
Blumenthal died in 1999, and his widow has continued
to support the program, which has brought
prominent speakers from business and government to the
Homewood campus.
Tuesday's event is open to the campus community and
alumni. To assist with planning, however,
those who expect to attend are asked to place a reservation
by calling 410-516-8723 or sending e-mail
to
engineering@jhu.edu.
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