Intel Corp.'s strategy for diversification in education and technology in increasingly competitive and complex markets is the linchpin of Craig R. Barrett's Durland Memorial Lecture April 26 at Cornell University. Barrett is president and CEO of Intel, one of the largest manufacturers of computer chips in the world.

The Durland lecture is the most prestigious invitational lecture at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. Barrett's talk, titled "Education and Technology in the New Economy," will be Wednesday, April 26, at 4:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.

While on campus, Barrett will meet with Cornell Intel fellows and visit the Cornell Theory Center computing facility. He will attend a faculty round table, visit the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, lunch with Johnson School Park fellows, attend a Johnson School e-commerce course, tour the Parker Center for Investment Research and meet with Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.

Barrett, who earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in materials science from Stanford University, was a Fulbright fellow at Danish Technical University in Denmark and a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the National Physical Laboratory in England. He joined Intel Corp. in 1974 as a technology development manager. He was named a vice president of the corporation in 1984, promoted to senior vice president in 1987 and executive vice president in 1990. He was elected to Intel's board of directors in 1992 and was named the company's chief operating officer in 1993. He became Intel's fourth president in May 1997, and chief executive officer in 1998.

In 1969, Barrett was the recipient of the Hardy Gold Medal from the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and currently is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the author of more than 40 technical papers dealing with the influence of microstructure on the properties of materials and a 1970 textbook on materials science, Principles of Engineering Materials, that is still in use at U.S. universities. In 1999, Barrett was appointed by the

U.S. secretary of education to serve on the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century. In addition to Intel, he serves on the board of directors of U.S. West Inc., the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association, Sematech and Pandesic LLC.

The Johnson School's Durland Memorial Lecture series, which brings distinguished executives from the fields of business, finance and investment management to Cornell annually, was initiated by Roy H. Park, the late chairman of Park Communications Inc., and a small group of donors in 1983 to honor former Cornell Treasurer Lewis H. Durland. Past Durland presenters have included Thomas W. Jones, co-chair and CEO of Citigroup's SSB Citi Asset Management Group; Abby Joseph Cohen, a partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co.; and Lucio A. Noto, chairman and chief executive officer of Mobil Corp.