Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to deliver keynote address at 2006 ASME Congress
David A. Vise, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post, and author of four books including his latest The Google Story, will be the keynote speaker at the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition to be held, Nov. 5-10, at the Hilton Chicago.
Focusing his discussion on what drives innovation in successful enterprises, Vise will tell how the popular media company, powered by the world's most advanced search technology, has revolutionized access to the vast world of information.
"Not since Gutenberg invented the modern printing press more than 500 years ago, making books and scientific tomes affordable and widely available to the masses, has any new invention empowered individuals or transformed access to information as profoundly as Google," says Vise in an excerpt from his book.
Born in Nashville, Tenn., Vise started in journalism at The Tennessean, first as a copyboy and later as an intern reporter. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 1990 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and the 1992 Distinguished Alumnus Award from University School of Nashville. He also has won awards from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association for coverage of the nation's capital city, the D.C. financial control board and other groundbreaking journalism. At The Washington Post, his beat focuses on Internet giants Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Time Warner/AOL.
Vise has also covered the FBI and the Justice Department for the Post, along with numerous other beats since joining the paper in the 1980s. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Bureau and the Mole and of Sweet Redemption: How Coach Gary Williams and the University of Maryland Terrapins Overcame Death and Despair to Win the NCAA Basketball Championship. Vise's first book, Eagle on the Street, written with Steve Coll, was based on the four-part Post series, "The Man from Wall Street: John Shad's Reign at the SEC," which won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize.
A 1982 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Vise has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and an Honorary Doctorate of Literary Letters from Cumberland University. A former Wall Street investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Vise also studied at the London School of Economics.
David and his wife, Lori, have three daughters, Lisa, Allison and Jennifer, and live in Bethesda, Md.
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