Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Clarence “Larry” Irving, Jr. (born July 7, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) was Vice President of Global Government Affairs for Hewlett-Packard Company, the largest technology company in the world. He joined the company on September 9, 2009 and left in 2011.Irving is president and CEO of the Irving Information Group, a telecommunication and information technology strategic planning and consulting business based in Washington, D.C. Irving launched his business in October 1999. Prior to starting his business, he was head of the National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration (NTIA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that serves as the President's principal adviser on telecommunications policies pertaining to the United States' economic and technological advancement and to regulation of the telecommunications industry. He was a principal architect of President Bill Clinton’s telecommunications, Internet and e-commerce policies and initiatives and acted as a senior adviser to the President and to Vice President Al Gore and the United States Secretary of Commerce during his tenure from 1993 to 1999. Irving was a member of the Clinton-Gore transition team focusing on telecommunications issues. More recently, he worked with President Barack Obama's transition team on science and tech agencies.While serving the NTIA, Irving authored three reports entitled “Falling Through the Net” that highlighted the scope and the consequences of inequities in access to information technology. He helped define the scope of and bring to public attention to the digital divide, a term referring to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all. He was named one of the 50 most influential persons in the “Year of the Internet” by Newsweek magazine in 1994. Irving is a 1976 B.A. graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and holds the degree of J.D. from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he was class president.. }
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- Larry_Irving abstract "Clarence “Larry” Irving, Jr. (born July 7, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) was Vice President of Global Government Affairs for Hewlett-Packard Company, the largest technology company in the world. He joined the company on September 9, 2009 and left in 2011.Irving is president and CEO of the Irving Information Group, a telecommunication and information technology strategic planning and consulting business based in Washington, D.C. Irving launched his business in October 1999. Prior to starting his business, he was head of the National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration (NTIA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that serves as the President's principal adviser on telecommunications policies pertaining to the United States' economic and technological advancement and to regulation of the telecommunications industry. He was a principal architect of President Bill Clinton’s telecommunications, Internet and e-commerce policies and initiatives and acted as a senior adviser to the President and to Vice President Al Gore and the United States Secretary of Commerce during his tenure from 1993 to 1999. Irving was a member of the Clinton-Gore transition team focusing on telecommunications issues. More recently, he worked with President Barack Obama's transition team on science and tech agencies.While serving the NTIA, Irving authored three reports entitled “Falling Through the Net” that highlighted the scope and the consequences of inequities in access to information technology. He helped define the scope of and bring to public attention to the digital divide, a term referring to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all. He was named one of the 50 most influential persons in the “Year of the Internet” by Newsweek magazine in 1994. Irving is a 1976 B.A. graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and holds the degree of J.D. from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he was class president.".