Jerry Bautista is the Director of Technology Management for Intel’s Microprocessor Research Laboratory and is chartered with driving the transfer of the lab’s research into product development and helping to set Intel’s strategic research agenda for future microprocessors. He co-leads the Intel Tera-scale Computing Research program, driving technologies for highly parallel, compute intensive applications and platforms. In addition, he leads a cross-Intel effort to explore memory/interconnect bandwidth challenges/solutions for future server and client platforms. Previous to joining Intel, Jerry was the CTO of an optical device start-up and spent 13 years at Lucent Technologies in the field of optical components and communication systems/networks, with assignments ranging from basic research (at Murray Hill Bell Labs) to development, operations and strategic marketing. He received his B.S. from Stanford University and PhD from Princeton University.