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Dr. David P. Rutenberg studied Engineering Physics at the University of Toronto, then moved to San Francisco to work for Chevron Oil in the early days of big computers. He studied for an MBA and then PhD at the University of California (Berkeley), and became an Assistant, then Associate, Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
After 16 years in the US, he returned to live in Canada in 1977. Queen’s University hired him to create courses in international business. He had been asked to be visiting professor of international business at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 1982. So he wanted to get ready for this Silicon Valley experience by auditing a course in Electrical Engineering at Queen’s. His EE colleagues got him into an experimental seminar in which each student would actually design an integrated circuit chip, and have it manufactured for them at Nortel. That seminar became the nucleus for the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC), which for almost 20 years has assured that every university in Canada has commercial quality design equipment and software, and that the chip designs are manufactured at the best quality fabs in the world. David, in his involvement with CMC, tries to assure that intellectual-property practices that help academics make prototypes do not impede their subsequent commercialization. In 2001 he wrote a study for the Law Reform Commission of Canada on the possibility of banks making loans that would be secured by intellectual property.
Dr. Rutenberg retired from Queen’s in 2001.

Following the early period of Russian exploration of North America, the imperial government was initially content to leave further development of Alaska in the hands of private traders or promyshlenniki. Attracted by the fur-bearing animals of the Aleutian Islands, the promyshlenniki did not settle in the new territory but only hunted seasonally. In 1784, however, Grigorii Shelikhov established the first permanent Russian outpost on Kodiak Island at Three Saints Bay. Eager to eliminate rival Russian companies and gain control of the entire North Pacific fur trade, Shelikhov expanded the sphere of Russian influence along the Alaskan coast and petitioned Empress Catherine the Great to grant him a monopoly. Shelikhov did not live to see his plans implemented, but in December 1799 Catherine's successor, Paul I, decided to issue a charter creating the Russian-American Company. Although its board of directors met in St. Petersburg, the company's business was conducted from the capital of Russian America, New Archangel (founded on Sitka Island in 1804). Despite falling revenues and a changing world order in the Pacific, the Russian-American Company provided Alaska and the Aleutians with a commercial and civil administration until 1867.

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Robin Russell, a prominent Liberal, was born in 1941 at Cobourg, Ontario. After graduating in Political Science from Waterloo, in 1964, he was employed, in 1965, by the Speaker of the House of Commons on the Inter-Parliamentary Secretariat. In 1967, he was Provincial Candidate, (Liberal) for Northumberland; he lost that election. From 1967 to 1971, he was Special Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition at Queen's Park, Robert Nixon. Except for the years from 1971 to 1975, when he worked as a property manager and as Administrative Assistant for Toronto's multi-heritage festival, Caravan, Mr. Russell has made his career in politics. From 1979 on, this career has consisted of a variety of jobs that might, all together, be summed up by calling him a part of the "Political Staff" of the Liberal Party. This does not mean that he was employed directly by the Party, usually he received a government salary as part of a Member of Parliament's staff and was required to resign when that member left office. His work alternated between provincial and federal politics and he was frequently employed by various "Campaign Committees" working for the election of Liberal candidates. More specifically, his work included inter-ministerial liaison; special events design and implementation; scheduling: supervision, implementation and protocol; communications strategy; speech writing and research; political organizing and training; re-election planning, sensitivity to urban, rural and multicultural realities. By 1999, Robin Russell had served on the political staff of five federal ministers and one provincial minister.

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Politician. Twice British Prime Minister, 1846 to 1852, and 1865-1866.