SRI International Board Member and Diva Chairman Paul M. Cook to be Honored by the Bay Area Council

CEO-led Public Policy Organization to Confer Bay Area Business Hall of Fame Award to Renowned Scientific Innovator at Annual Dinner
 
Menlo Park, Calif. (October 22, 1999) -- SRI International and DIVA Systems Corporation today announced that SRI Board member and DIVA chairman Paul M. Cook will receive the Bay Area Council's Bay Area Business Hall of Fame Award at the Council's fifty-fourth annual dinner to be held October 25 in San Francisco
 
Recipients of this award are honored by the Council for outstanding achievement in advancing their Bay Area-based businesses to positions of national and international prominence and for enriching the civic life of the Bay Area
 
A Life Dedicated to Service, Innovation and Excellence
Paul Cook is one of the most successful and prolific innovators and entrepreneurs in the history of Silicon Valley. Starting at SRI International as a chemical engineer in 1948 after graduating from MIT, Mr. Cook later become head of the Radiation Chemistry Laboratory. He was SRI's forty-eighth employee; SRI today employs a staff of 1,500 in Menlo Park.
 
In 1957, Mr. Cook founded Raychem Corporation to develop commercial applications for an entirely new field-radiation chemistry-and served as chief executive officer and chairman of the Board. While at Raychem, Mr. Cook pioneered a new industry, creating some 200,000 products.
 
Mr. Cook served as chairman of SRI International for five years and remains a member of its Board of Directors, where he has held a position since 1987. He is chairman of Sarnoff Corporation and served as chairman and CEO of CellNet Data Systems.
 
Mr. Cook is the founder and chairman of DIVA, a spin-off of SRI International's wholly owned subsidiary Sarnoff Corporation. Founded in 1995, DIVA is the leading provider of digital interactive video-on-demand technology and services for the cable television industry
 
Mr. Cook was one of only ten American scientists to have received the National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan. He has also been the recipient of the Winthrop-Sears Medal from the Chemical Industry Association in 1986 and, in 1989, the Golden Omega Award for contributions to technical progress by the Electrical/Electronic Insulation Conference (EEIC)
 
About the Bay Area Council
The Bay Area Council (www.bayareacouncil.org) is a CEO-led, business-sponsored public policy organization founded more than 50 years ago to promote regional economic prosperity and quality of life. The Council presents a strong, united voice for more than 230 major employers from throughout the region to help shape public policy affecting transportation, environmental quality, economic development, housing and land use, sustainable development, water policy, education and workforce preparation, and telecommunications infrastructure
 
About DIVA
DIVA Systems Corporation is a privately held company founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Redwood City. DIVA commercially launched its digital video-on-demand service in cable television systems in the Fall of 1997 and is now deployed in six cable systems in the U.S
 
About SRI International
Silicon Valley-based SRI International (www.sri.com) is one of the world's largest independent research, technology development and consulting organizations. Founded in 1946 as the Stanford Research Institute, SRI has been meeting the strategic needs of global markets for more than 50 years. As part of its strategy to bring its technologies to the marketplace, SRI licenses its technologies, forms strategic partnerships and creates spin-off companies.