cas: beckman lecture The Arnold O. Beckman Lectures in Science and Innovation The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus Research Board established this lecture series in 1982 to reflect the character and career of Arnold O. Beckman. Dr. Beckman's career provides notable examples of the process by which fundamental discovery is translated into products for general societal use. The series is designed to emphasize the benefits of basic research as reflected in the development of new technology and in the general economic benefit to society. The first lecture in the series was given by Dr. Beckman himself on October 13, 1983; his topic was "University-Industry Relations." Subsequent lecturers were: Zvi Griliches Economics Department, Harvard University "The Productivity Slowdown: Is R and D the Culprit?" Clement Markert Biology Department, Yale University The Dispensable Male" Edwin Land Rowland Institute of Science "The Experimental Basis of the Retinex Theory of Color Vision" Charles Townes Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley "Quantum Electronics and Lasers: From Esoteric Research to High Tech and Popular Catchword" Gordon Moore Chairman, Board of the Intel Corporation "From Grains of Sand...A View of the Electronics Industry" Ralph E. Gomory Senior Vice President for Science and Technology, IBM Corp. "The Intersection of Science and Product" P. Roy Vagelos Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Merck & Co. Inc. "New Breakthrough Medicines: Society's Reward for Support of Basic Research" William G. Ouchi Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles "Industrial Research and Development; Organizing for the Future" Carver Mead Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology "Silicon Models of Neural Computation" Mary L. Good Senior Vice-President-Technology, Allied-Signal, Inc., Morristown NJ "The Future Role of Research Intensive Universities in the Economic Progress of the United States" Edwin B. Stear Vice President-Technology Assessment, Boeing Company "On the Wings of Innovation: Research and Technology in Commercial Aviation" Pierre-Gille de Gennes French physicist, College de France & Nobel Laureate for Physics1991 "Soft Matter" William T. Rutter Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chiron Corporation and Hertzstein Professor of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco "Advances in Biochemistry: The Transition from Basic Research to Commercial Applications" Bert Sakmann Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, 1991 and Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research "Electrical Signaling in the Brain" Peter C. Doherty Michael F. Tamer Chair of Biomedical Research, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis, 1996 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine "How We Deal with Viruses" Robert Langer Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Biomaterials and How They Will Change Our Lives" J. Craig Venter President, Celera Genomics "Sequencing the Human Genome" Stephen Wolfram Adjunct Professor of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science, UIUC; Creator of Mathematica, author of A New Kind of Science; CEO of Wolfram Research, Inc. "A New Kind of Science" N. R. Narayana Murthy Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor InfoSys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India "The Indian Software Industry - Managing Change and Growth in the Knowledge Economy" Edward Penhoet President and Chief Program Officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, San Francisco "Realizing the Promise of Research: Translation of Technology into Product" Vinton Cerf Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google "Technology and Policy Challenges for the Internet in 2007" Steven E. Koonin Group Chief Scientist, BP "Energy, Environment, Security: Can We Have It All?"