Intel's Robert Yung Named To World Economic Forum's "Top 100 Global Leaders For Tomorrow"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 1, 2000 - Dr. Robert Yung, Intel Corporation's director of the Intel China Research Center and chief technology officer for Intel China, has been named to the World Economic Forum's "Top 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow" in Davos, Switzerland. The World Economic Forum selects 100 young leaders each year for the organization's prestigious Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT).

The GLT represents a new generation of global decision-makers from business, government, politics and civil society who have demonstrated responsible leadership in such areas as society, environment and social responsibility in business.

Yung, 36, is director of the Intel China Research Center located in Beijing, China, which a part of the Intel's Microcomputer Research Lab. The Intel China Research Center conducts applied research to improve personal computers' ease-of-use, with particular focus on the Internet and input technologies such as speech recognition.

Since 1998, Yung has been an education and technology representative to Asia on behalf of industry, and has helped develop infrastructure and business in China. In 1997, Yung organized the CyberClassroom event during U.S. Vice President Gore's visit to China. This event demonstrated the feasibility, practicality, and affordability of distance learning-knowledge transfer between teachers and students in the cyberspace. Yung also organized a telemedicine event in Xi'an, and helped organize the InternetCafe event in Shanghai during President Clinton's state visit to China in 1998.

Yung holds B.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a visiting professor at the university since 1995. He is the author of 44 issued patents and over 20 pending patents, and has published extensively in technical journals and spoken at many industry conferences. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He has served on the Strategic Computing Working Group of the Association of Computing Machinery and the National Science Foundation. He is a high tech advisor to the China National Science Foundation.

The GLT initiative was formed in 1992 to provide an informal, efficient framework for an ongoing exchange of opinions on strategic issues of concern to the younger generation of decision-makers. The GLT network ensures key challenges are addressed in an integrated and interdisciplinary way, drawing on the diversity, creativity and dynamic nature of the GLT network. The GLT initiative is integrated into the programs of the World Economic Forum, providing the organization and its members with in-depth knowledge of some of the key issues facing society.

The World Economic Forum is an independent and impartial organization committed to improving the state of the world. It serves its members and society by creating the foremost global partnership of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society to define and discuss key issues on the global agenda.

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