Marc Porat

Marc Porat is an entrepreneur in information technologies and sustainable materials. He is currently Chairman of Serious Materials, a manufacturer of sustainable building materials, and chairman and CEO of CalStar Cement.^[1]

He is best known for his doctoral work at Stanford University in which he created measures of the information economy.^[2] He then worked for the US Department of Commerce and served as director of the Aspen Institute. A mobile project he helped develop while at Apple Computer was spun off into a new company, General Magic which he co-founded.

References

1. ^ Speaker bio for the TED conference.
2. ^ Porat, Mark Uri (May 1977). The Information Economy: Definition and Measurement. Washington, DC: United States Department of Commerce. OCLC 5184933. http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED142205&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED142205. 

External links

• Serious Materials website
• CalStar Cement website

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