Mark Stahlman
| Mark Stahlman | |
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| Born | February 8, 1948 Boston, Massachusetts |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Chicago University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Mark Stahlman is a biologist,[1] computer architect,[2] entrepreneur, Wall Street technology strategist,[3] and Marshall McLuhan scholar.[4] He is the President of the not-for-profit Center for the Study of Digital Life, a geo-strategic research group that was founded in 2015 and originated from work done for the United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment.
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Formation[edit]
Stahlman was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Rita C. Byrnes and MIT professor William D. Stahlman. His father graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology following his Pacific service in World War II, and was a protege of mathematician Norbert Wiener and historian of science Giorgio de Santillana.[5] His mother graduated from St. Joseph’s College in West Hartford, CT, later becoming an educator in cancer cytology.[6]
Science[edit]
Mark's father William D. Stahlman was an historian of science,[7] writing his PhD thesis under Otto Neugebauer at Brown University (title: "The Astronomical Tables of Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1291.", 1960).[8] Mark took human biology as his field of interest, entering into a pre-med program in Neuropsychopharmacology at University of Wisconsin-Madison and later graduating with a degree in Genetics, followed by an incomplete effort to finish a PhD in Molecular Biology.[9] Stahlman began his study of theology, initially focused on Mahayana Buddhism at Wisconsin and continuing with a brief and also incomplete PhD effort at the University of Chicago's Divinity Department, where he studied the Book of Genesis.[9]
Career[edit]
Computers / networks[edit]
After moving to New York City in 1972 to join the SDS National Caucus of Labor Committees, a Trotskyist organization run by the Marxist economist Lyndon LaRouche, Stahlman co-founded the software company Computron, Inc., becoming the company's Vice President of R&D.[10] In this role, he consulted to Citibank in its effort to build the "New Machine".[11] Stahlman left Computron to join Wang Laboratories, where he was recruited to direct the Wangnet local area network project.[12] He had earlier consulted Wang on its VS computer project and the Citibank "New Machine" effort had been based on the "Wang 928" architecture, as used in Wang's word-processing systems. Stahlman then went to General Instrument Corp., where he ran an in-house venture fund, making investments in Israel and Silicon Valley.[13]
Finance[edit]
Stahlman joined Sanford C. Bernstein, Inc. in 1985 as a sell-side analyst following the local-area network startups, including Ungermann-Bass and 3Com.[14] Stahlman expanded his coverage to include microcomputer companies, including Compaq and Apple.[15] While at Bernstein, now a part of Alliance Capital, Stahlman became the first (and, for a long time, only) analyst recommending the newly public Sun Microsystems, Inc, now a part of Oracle Corporation.[16] Stahlman coined the term "Network Computing", which Sun later adopted as its corporate slogan "The Network is the Computer."[17] Stahlman was hired by Alex Brown & Sons to oversee the "Network Computing" section of ABS banking, where he successfully led the IPO of America Online in March of 1992.[18]
Stahlman then became a strategic adviser to the CMP publishing company, helping to launch their "Network Computing" magazine, writing columns for "Information Week" and "Computer Reseller News." He advised CMP's in-house venture group, including on a potential investment in the early Wired magazine, as well as consulting the West-coast Accel Partners. During this period, in 1994, Stahlman co-founded the New York New Media Association (NYNMA). Stahlman coined the term "Silicon Alley" to refer to technology developments in New York City.[19] Stahlman returned to Wall Street in 2003, first joining American Technology Research, then Caris Associates and finally Gartner Inc.'s "Gartner Invest" as Technology Strategist, resuming his coverage of Google, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel etc.[20] Returning to his early focus on networking, Stahlman became a leading proponent of "Cloud Computing", as represented by Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud etc.[21]
McLuhan[edit]
In 2011, the centennial year of Marshall McLuhan's birth, Stahlman guest-edited the special issue of Renascence, a Catholic literary journal published at Marquette, on McLuhan.[22] The issue opens with his mini-biography of McLuhan.[23]
Stahlman frequently participates in McLuhan scholarship by giving lectures at multiple McLuhan-based academic conferences, including MM100 and "The Toronto School."[24]
Net Assessment[edit]
Beginning around 2012, Stahlman worked with Phil Midland (US Navy, ret.) to provide research to the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA), looking at China and digital technology.[25] ONA increasingly focused on China in the 1990s, following the demise of the Soviet Union. Stahlman's primary contribution to this strategic analysis has been to further understand the effects of digital technology on Chinese civilization.[26] In 2015, Marshall retired from ONA, which he had led since its founding in 1973, and Stahlman and Midland then formed the Center for the Study of Digital Life (CSDL), where Stahlman is President.[27]
References[edit]
- ↑ Mark Stahlman Joins American Technology Research. Business Wire. July 01, 2003.
- ↑ Jay Jubert. Wangnet. A Cable-Based Localnet. Wang Laboratories Inc. 1982.
- ↑ Morris, Keiko. Widening Tech 'Alley' Outgrows Its Name. The Wall Street Journal. April 29, 2014.
- ↑ Stahlman, Mark. The Place of Marshall McLuhan in the Learning of His Times. Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature. Sep 22, 2011.
- ↑ Stahlman, Mark. “Wiener’s ‘Genius Project’”. 2014 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW). doi:10.1109/NORBERT.2014.6893907.
- ↑ Obituary. Madison Wisconsin State Journal Saturday, July 27, 1996
- ↑ Thompson, Gary D. "Critics and Criticisms of Hamlet's Mill." In Essays Relating to the History of Occidental Constellations and Star Names in the Classical Period. Gary D. Thompson. 20. 5 2013.
- ↑ "Vaticanus gr. 1291". www.voynich.nu.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Stahlman, Mark (22 April 2016). "Digital Life - a conversation with Mark Stahlman and friends" (Interview). Interviewed by Ted Newcomb.
- ↑ Bertin, Lou. “The Bizarre Story of Computron Technologies: How Radical Political Ties Led a Systems House to Bankruptcy Court.” Computer Systems News, May 4, 1981.
- ↑ McCartney, L. "Project Paradise Comes Down to Earth", Datamation, September 1978.
- ↑ Hirsch, Phil. "Cost of Future 'Full-Blown' Net Outlined". Computerworld. Jun 21, 1982.
- ↑ EMCE Conference Program. Computerworld. May 1983.
- ↑ Markoff, John. COMPANY NEWS; Unisys Expects a Loss For the First Quarter. The New York Times. March 30, 1989.
- ↑ "Mark Stahlman Joins American Technology Research". www.businesswire.com. July 1, 2003.
- ↑ Markoff, John. Sun Link Is Sought By IBM. The New York Times. March 13, 1992.
- ↑ Gannes, Stuart. IBM AND DEC TAKE ON THE LITTLE GUYS. FORTUNE Magazine. October 10, 1988.
- ↑ Gaither, Chris (October 19, 2005). "Hey, AOL, you've got suitors -- list includes Microsoft, Google, Yahoo". Los Angeles Times – via www.orlandosentinel.com.
- ↑ Block, Valerie. Rising Firm Tally Expands Geography of Silicon Alley: Companies Seek Cheaper Space, Better Technology All About Town. Crain's New York Business Inc. November 23, 1997.
- ↑ Dean, Katie (October 31, 2006). "Apple Mines the Mainstream". www.thestreet.com.
- ↑ Markoff, John. "Microsoft Reveals a Web-Based Software System". April 23, 2008.
- ↑ Stahlman, Mark. "Guest editor's page." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature. Sep 22, 2011.
- ↑ Stahlman, Mark. "The place of Marshall McLuhan in the learning of his times." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature. Sep 22, 2011.
- ↑ https://blogue.editionsboreal.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/McLuhan-Then-Now-Next.pdf
- ↑ Stahlman, Mark. ”Inkwell: Authors and Artists Topic 490: Digital Life - a conversation with Mark Stahlman and friends”. The Well. May 16, 2016.
- ↑ "Origins". www.digitallife.center.
- ↑ "People". www.digitallife.center.
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