About the Author
Kenneth J. Thurber has spent his career working in the field of computer and system architecture. He has written or led nearly 500 technical proposals (winning over 200) leading to over $2.5 billion in research, development, and product derived work since 1969. He also consulted on the purchase by end users and/or product introduction by manufacturers of over $10 billion dollars worth of equipment. He was the system architect for the specification of the Local Area Network and distributed processor concepts that resulted in the deployment of a real time system worth over $7 billion dollars. He developed the concepts of technology big wave surfing as a metaphor for ways to capitalize on the disruption that technology brings to the product marketplace. He is the creator and the world’s leading practitioner of extreme ways to develop, manage, market and invest in the technology product marketplace. In addition to forming and running several companies he has been a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies. He is considered by many to be the “Consultant’s Consultant”.
Work Experience
Kenneth J. Thurber has worked for several major corporations including Honeywell and Univac. He was on the adjunct faculty of the Computer Science Department of the University of Minnesota. He is currently the president of Architecture Technology Corporation which he co founded.
Further Author Information, Education and Publications
Written by Kenneth J. Thurber
PhDEE 1969, Montana State University
Books, Newsletters and Reports (as published by Architecture Technology)
Past Volunteer Activities
Charter Member IEEE Computer Society Golden Core
Governing Board IEEE Computer Society
Chairman IEEE Computer Society TCCC (Technical Committee Computer Communications)
Distinguished Visitor IEEE Computer Society
Member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and SME.
Registered Professional Engineer License