INFORMATION · KNOWLEDGE · SYSTEMS Management

ARTICLE ABSTRACT

Information, Knowledge, Systems Management

Betting on Technology Leadership: The Genesis of Motorola Labs: An Interview with Dennis Roberson

Dennis Roberson is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Motorola. He is responsible for Motorola’s future technology direction, and its Technical Community and specifically the company’s Global Software Group, standards efforts and its research organization, Motorola Labs. Prior to joining Motorola, Mr. Roberson worked at IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of Compaq), AT&T, and NCR with a broad array of work experiences in areas as diverse as semiconductor process and device development, applications, systems and operating systems software development, and the development of the full gambit of computer systems from the PC to minicomputers to mainframes to the world’s largest data warehouse systems.