Larson, Robert E.

Robert Larson is Co-founder and Managing Director of the Woodside Fund. Dr. Larson has enjoyed a challenging and fruitful career in the computer and electronics industry for the past 35 years. He has an exceptionally broad exposure to the most recent developments in these technologies. Dr. Larson was co-founder, President, and CEO of Systems Control, a computer systems and software company with 500 employees, including 100 with Ph.D. degrees, prior to its sale to British Petroleum. In addition, he was President of the international Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the 340,000 member professional society for electrical engineers and computer scientists. As IEEE President in 1980, he visited China for the first of his many trips, where he gave a lecture at Tsinghua University, and visited many ministries involved in electrical engineering industries. The meetings included the Ministry of Electric Power, where he met former Chairman Jiang Zemin. This meeting resulted in a technology transfer to China, the Electric Power Energy Management System/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition technology, that is still being used in China. In 1990s, he was asked by Chairman Jiang to guide the implementation of the privatization model of various sectors, working with State Council Development Research Center.

Dr. Larson has worked for IBM, Hughes Aircraft, and SRI International. He was also a Consulting Professor at Stanford University in the Engineering-Economic Systems Department for over 20 years. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, and a B.S. degree from MIT, all in Electrical Engineering. He has written six textbooks and 140 technical papers on software and computer systems.

Robert Larson博士是Woodside Fund共同创始人和董事总经理。在计祘机和电子工业方面享有35年挑战性的和卓有成效的职业生涯，他对这些技术的最新发展极有着极其广泛的接触。Larson博士是System Control的共同创始人，並且是总裁和首席执行官。此公司是个计祘系统和軟件公司，僱员500，其中100位博士，后被BP并购。他是拥有34,0000电机工程师和计祘机科学家会员的国际电机和计算机学会(IEEE)会长。1980年，他代表IEEE，首次访问中国，在清华大学做系列的报告，並且參观不少与电机工程有关的部委，其中包括电力部。那次首次見到前主席江泽民。会议结果，达成技术转移的协议，<中国电力能源管理系统监控与数据采集的系统>，至今仍在中国应用。九十年代，他应江主席的邀请，与国务院发展研究中心协力，指导制定国企私有化模式的各方面实施工作。

Larson博 士曾在IBM公司，休斯飞机公司和SRI国际公司工作。在斯坦福大学超过 20年，任工程经济系统系顾问教 授。他在斯丹福大学获博士、碩士，麻省理工学院学土，均是电机系。他写过6本教科书，140篇有关軟件和计祘机系统的论文。