Microsoft Corp. announced Jan. 31 that Scott
Charney '77, a principal for PricewaterhouseCoopers'
Cybercrime Prevention and Response Practice, has agreed to join Microsoft
as chief security strategist. Charney will focus on developing strategies
to enhance the security of Microsoft products, services and infrastructures
as part of the Trustworthy Computing initiative. He is scheduled to
start work at Microsoft on the first of April.
"As one of the industry's top computer security experts, Scott
has wide-ranging experience in cybercrime and computer forensics,
which will make him an essential member of Microsoft's Trustworthy
Computing leadership team," said Craig Mundie, chief technical officer
at Microsoft. "Scott takes a long-term, industry-wide perspective
on security strategy and understands the critical challenge of building
safe and secure software and services for our customers and the
industry."
"I am excited to join Microsoft, especially in light of the company's
significant commitment to Trustworthy Computing," Charney said.
"The opportunity to work at Microsoft to enable Trustworthy Computing
through secure technologies, products and services made this job,
in a word, irresistible."
 Fred
Luskin '76,
director and co-founder of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project
and author of Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health
and Happiness (HarperCollins, 2001), has received widespread
national attention for his new book. Stories about him and the Forgiveness
Project have appeared recently in the San Francisco Chronicle,
San Jose Mercury News, Readers' Digest and the Chicago
Sun Times. He was interviewed Feb. 8 by Forum host Angie
Coiro on KQED, San Francisco's National Public Radio station. You
may listen
to the broadcast here.
For links to many of these newspaper stories and magazine articles,
go to http://www.learningtoforgive.com/index.html
and click on "Media Coverage."
 Steve
Ovadia '91, vice president at ProActive
Solutions Inc., a Howell, N.J.-based IT consulting firm, was
recently interviewed in ComputerWorld
magazine for a story related to career advice for college graduates
entering today's economy. "One of the reasons I was selected was
due to the fact that I graduated during the last major recession
in 1991," wrote Steve. The article may be found here.
 "Music
as Medicine," a review of music by Matthew
Zachary '96, appeared in the March 2002 issue
of Let's Live magazine. Matthew has two CDs, Scribblings
and Every Step of the Way. Both are available through his
website at http://www.matthewzachary.com/media/letslive/.
"With circulation at over 1.5 million subscribers, this editorial
is sure to make some waves," wrote Matthew.
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