Charles House

Charles "Chuck" House is the executive director of Media X, Stanford University's membership research program on media and technology. He is also a senior research scholar there, continuing his work in technology-enabled communications, collaboration, and community. Previously, he was the director of Societal Impact of Technology, for Intel Corporation. He has been deeply involved with questions of technology's effect on society, and is currently focused on issues surrounding the attributes and impact of software technologies, particularly distance learning and collaboration using multimediated Web networking. He was instrumental in establishing the new Center for Information Technologies and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and serves as Advisory Chair. Earlier, Chuck was senior vice president of multi-media communication research for Dialogic (acquired by Intel in 1999), and also President of Spectron Microsystems (sold to Texas Instruments). Chuck was part of the IPO executive team at Veritas Software, and senior vice president of R&D at Informix Software during the very successful turnaround years of 1991-93. He also spent 29 years at Hewlett-Packard in a variety of management and technical roles, including five years as corporate engineering director.