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Christian Hicks, cofounder and president of technical litigation consulting company Elysium Digital and a key U.S. Department of Justice consultant in its civil action against Microsoft, will speak on “Business at the Intersection of Law and Technology” 7:30 p.m. tonight.
The location has been changed to the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium.
Free and open to the public, the talk is the third in the 2003-2004 CIRCLE Entrepreneurship series organized by students and supported by the Hunsicker Fund, which promotes the study of entrepreneurship at Lafayette. An additional lecture will take place in the spring.
Now in its fourth year, CIRCLE is organized by economics and business major Matthew Guadagno ’05 of Short Hills, N.J., American Studies major Adrienne Stark ’04 of Oxford, N.J., A.B. engineering major Noah Payne’05 of Brookline, Mass., and mathematics and economics major Martin Lawlor’05 of Morristown, N.J. They are advised by Rosie Bukics, Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Professor of Economics and Business, and Sheila Handy, assistant professor of economics and business.
“We felt Mr. Hicks was an excellent speaker to bring in because he will be able to show that not all entrepreneurships are product-based,” says Guadagno. “Mr. Hicks’ speech will have the ability to reach out to students at Lafayette who study law and computer science as well economics and business majors.”
Hicks founded Elysium Digital along with Peter Creath in 1997. They served as technical advisers to David Boies, lead attorney for the Justice Department at the Microsoft antitrust trial, helping demonstrate that Windows and Internet Explorer could be separated. “Two twentysomething computer geeks managed to accomplish this week something nobody in the high tech industry has been able to manage: They threatened to rock mighty Microsoft and its Windows colossus,” New York Post reported of them in 1999.
Hicks has advised clients on computer science issues in more than 20 different matters, ranging from patent infringement to code theft to network breaches. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in computer science. His academic research focused on artificial intelligence and earned him the Computer Science Senior Prize. His areas of focus include data mining, network protocols, source code analysis, artificial intelligence, and computer forensics. While a researcher for the AT&T Consumer Lab, he worked on data mining and Internet programs and protocols. He is co-inventor on two patents for systems that unlock remote electronic data.
Prior CIRCLE speakers this school year were Richard L. Yuengling Jr., president and fifth-generationowner of D.G. Yuengling & Son, and Charles Abrams ’92, CEO of textile lamination company Dela, Inc. and managing principal of Ward Hill Realty Assoc.
Some previous CIRCLE talks: