Dr. Betty Prince is CEO of Memory Strategies International. She has 35 years experience in the semiconductor industry having worked with Texas Instruments, N.V. Philips and Motorola in memory technology and marketing management, at R.C.A. in the development of an early microprocessor and at Fairchild in semiconductor process technology. She is author of the books: Semiconductor Memories (1982), Semiconductor Memories 2nd Edition (1992), High Performance Memories, (1996, revised 1999) all published by John Wiley & Sons, Emerging Memories - Technologies and Trends, (2002) published bySpringer, and Modern Memories to be published by John Wiley & Sons. She is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE, an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer, and served on the Technical Advisory Board of IEEE Spectrum magazine. She was founder of the JEDEC JC-16 Interface Standards Committee, co-chair of the JEDEC JC-42 SRAM standards group and U.S. representative to the IEC SC47A WG3 Memory Standards Committee. She has served on the Technical Advisory Boards of: Cavendish Kinetics, Emerging Memory Technologies and Silicon Access Networks and was a Director of Mosaid Technologies. She holds patents in the memory, processor and interface areas. She has a B.S. and M.S. in physics and math from the University of New Mexico and the University of California, an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas with doctoral dissertation on fractal modeling.