John C. B. LeGates

Who is John C. B. LeGates?

John C. B. LeGates joins TransMedia after a distinguished career as

strategist, entrepreneur and executive in the computer and computer

networking industries.

Since 1973 he has been Managing

Director and cofounder of Harvard's Program on Information Resources

Policy; and President and cofounder of The Center for Information

Policy Research. In that role he has been a policy and strategy advisor

at the most senior levels to the major companies and governments in

"the information age".

As executive director of the

Educational Information Network at EDUCOM, he headed the development of

nationwide academic computer networks and was a member of the ARPANET

NWG,

the Internet's first design team. As cofounder and vice president of

Cambridge Information Systems, Inc., Mr. LeGates headed the team that

built the first hospital integrated-information system. He was a

founding member of Computer Advisory Services to Education, Inc. and

Cambridge Information Systems, Inc. At Bolt, Beranek Newman, Inc.

he pioneered the use of computers in schools.

Mr. LeGates has

served on panels of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research

Council and on the board of the National Telecommunications Policy

Conference. He was the US delegate to the First World Conference on

Computer Communications (Amsterdam, 1970). He has testified many times

before both houses of Congress, before state legislatures and

regulatory commissions, and before their counterparts abroad. He has

authored or managed the authoring of numerous books on the information

technology industry, its forces, trends and issues. Mr. LeGates is a

graduate of Harvard College (A.B. mathematics) and Phillips Exeter

Academy.