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Friday October 24 1:44 PM EDT
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IDG'S CIO Communications Paves the Way for Tomorrow's Information
Technology Leaders
CIO Magazine Honors IT Leaders by Establishing Million Dollar Scholarship Fund
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- CIO Communications, Inc. today announced details of a scholarship fund
designed to help meet today's educational needs for tomorrow's IT leaders.
The $1,000,000 fund will be distributed throughout the next several years in the form of separate grants or scholarships. CIO
will award a select group of IT leaders with a $10,000 endowment in their name to the educational institution of their choice.
''This fund is designed to recognize the contributions of today's notable IT leaders while building on the promise of a new
generation of IT visionaries,'' stated Joe Levy, President and Group Publisher of CIO Communications, Inc.
The first set of leaders/honorees was established in conjunction with an editorial feature honoring thirteen of today's top IT
pioneers. The story, which appeared in the ten year anniversary issue of CIO magazine (Sept. 15, 1997), dubbed these thirteen
influential individuals the ''Leaders of the Information Age.''
The CIO Communications Editorial and Executive Board, including editorial director Lew McCreary, editor in chief Abbie
Lundberg and Levy, selected the founding thirteen companies and the individuals who lead them. According to Levy, ''These
first thirteen executives have set the parameters and the possibilities of the information age for the past decade and will likely
continue to do so for the decade ahead. In short, the information industry would not be where it is today without these
individuals and their organizations. We at CIO are eager to add to this distinguished list in the years to come by honoring new
IT leaders with grants and scholarships in their names.'' CIO will honor the founding leaders, and newly designated leaders,
each year for as long as the fund is in existence.
The thirteen original IT leaders and their companies are: Lester M. Alberthal, chairman & CEO, Electronic Data Systems
Corp.; James Barksdale, president & CEO, Netscape Communications Corp.; Eric A. Benhamou, chairman, president &
CEO, 3Com Corp.; John T. Chambers, president & CEO, Cisco Systems Inc.; Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman & CEO,
Dell Computer Corp.; David A. Duffield, chairman, president & CEO, PeopleSoft Inc.; Lawrence J. Ellison, chairman &
CEO, Oracle Corp.; William H. Gates, chairman & CEO, Microsoft Corp.; Louis V. Gerstner Jr., chairman & CEO, IBM
Corp.; Andrew S. Grove, chairman & CEO, Intel Corp.; Scott McNealy, chairman, president & CEO, Sun Microsystems,
Inc.; Eckhard Pfeiffer, president & CEO, Compaq Computer Corp.; Charles B. Wang, chairman & CEO, Computer
Associates International Inc.
Computer Associates International selected the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the State University of New
York at Stony Brook as its recipient. PeopleSoft Inc. selected the San Francisco Unified School District as its recipient. On
October 27th, Intel Corp. will award the fund's third grant to the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.
CIO Communications, Inc. was formed in 1987 to help CIOs, IT executives and other senior management executives succeed
in their enterprises through the use of information technology. The company publishes CIO magazine, produces the
award-winning www.cio.com Web site, and develops and produces CIO Executive Programs -- a series of conferences that
provide educational and networking opportunities for corporate and government executives who want to expand their
knowledge of technology, business management issues and innovative products and services. The company is a subsidiary of
International Data Group (IDG), the leading global provider of information services on information technology.
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