Microelectronics Computer Technology Corp

Research Consortium Names New President: Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. named John McRary president and chief executive. The Austin, Tex., concern was founded by 12 U.S. technology companies in 1982 as a collaborative organization to battle Japanese competition in computer development. McRary, 54, is vice chairman and executive vice president of Science Applications International Corp. in San Diego. He succeeds Craig Fields, who resigned as MCC chief executive in March.

Research Consortium Names New President: Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. named John McRary president and chief executive. The Austin, Tex., concern was founded by 12 U.S. technology companies in 1982 as a collaborative organization to battle Japanese competition in computer development. McRary, 54, is vice chairman and executive vice president of Science Applications International Corp. in San Diego. He succeeds Craig Fields, who resigned as MCC chief executive in March.

Chairman of MCC Research Firm to Leave: Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. said Craig I. Fields, chairman and chief executive, will resign June 1. No successor has been chosen and Fields did not name his next employer, said Cynthia Williams, an associate at the Austin, Tex., technology research complex. William C. Norris of Control Data Corp. founded MCC to promote research collaboration among U.S. technology companies.

Chairman of MCC Research Firm to Leave: Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. said Craig I. Fields, chairman and chief executive, will resign June 1. No successor has been chosen and Fields did not name his next employer, said Cynthia Williams, an associate at the Austin, Tex., technology research complex. William C. Norris of Control Data Corp. founded MCC to promote research collaboration among U.S. technology companies.

NCR Corp., the computer and business machines firm, introduced Tuesday the first commercial product based on technology developed by a research consortium founded five years ago to compete with Japan. NCR said that the new product, a computer software program that assists engineers in the design of computer chips, is proof that research done by the consortium, Austin, Tex.-based Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp., will help U.S. companies remain competitive against Japan.

Twelve of the nation's leading technology companies said Tuesday that they have joined forces to help bring "multimedia" services, such as picture phones and computerized movie libraries, to American households by 1995. The venture, dubbed First Cities, includes such prominent companies as Apple Computer, Eastman Kodak Co., North American Philips, Corning Inc., Southwestern Bell Corp. and US West Inc.

Once again, Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp., the high-technology research consortium better known as MCC, is in the spotlight. This time, it's because of Craig Fields, who on Monday joined MCC as its president and heir-in-waiting to Chief Executive Grant Dove. Fields is the former head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency whose dismissal from that Pentagon post in April has become a symbol of the Bush Administration's antipathy for a national industrial policy.

From Silicon Valley to Boston's Route 128 to the Pentagon, the country's most discriminating computer cognoscenti look at Craig Fields and wonder: "Is this guy going to return to power and influence in Washington? Or might he be just as effective remaining as chief executive of one of the country's weirdest technology organizations?"

Grant Dove is officially moving into his new office today--the roomy digs set aside for the chairman of Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. But before he can really settle in, there's a picture he'll need hung. The photograph, which for years startled visitors to this soft-spoken man's office at Texas Instruments in Dallas, shows a hawk perched upon a prickly cactus. To Dove, who assumes his new position at the Austin, Tex.

From Silicon Valley to Boston's Route 128 to the Pentagon, the country's most discriminating computer cognoscenti look at Craig Fields and wonder: "Is this guy going to return to power and influence in Washington? Or might he be just as effective remaining as chief executive of one of the country's weirdest technology organizations?"

Twelve of the nation's leading technology companies said Tuesday that they have joined forces to help bring "multimedia" services, such as picture phones and computerized movie libraries, to American households by 1995. The venture, dubbed First Cities, includes such prominent companies as Apple Computer, Eastman Kodak Co., North American Philips, Corning Inc., Southwestern Bell Corp. and US West Inc.

Once again, Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp., the high-technology research consortium better known as MCC, is in the spotlight. This time, it's because of Craig Fields, who on Monday joined MCC as its president and heir-in-waiting to Chief Executive Grant Dove. Fields is the former head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency whose dismissal from that Pentagon post in April has become a symbol of the Bush Administration's antipathy for a national industrial policy.

Grant Dove is officially moving into his new office today--the roomy digs set aside for the chairman of Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. But before he can really settle in, there's a picture he'll need hung. The photograph, which for years startled visitors to this soft-spoken man's office at Texas Instruments in Dallas, shows a hawk perched upon a prickly cactus. To Dove, who assumes his new position at the Austin, Tex.

NCR Corp., the computer and business machines firm, introduced Tuesday the first commercial product based on technology developed by a research consortium founded five years ago to compete with Japan. NCR said that the new product, a computer software program that assists engineers in the design of computer chips, is proof that research done by the consortium, Austin, Tex.-based Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp., will help U.S. companies remain competitive against Japan.

The decision of the aerospace and defense electronics firm means that three companies will drop out of the Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. in Austin, Tex., at the end of this year. Earlier this week, it was announced that Unisys and Allied-Signal also are ending their participation. MCC officials said selection of a chief executive to succeed Bobby Inman has not yet been completed.