
Dan Lamborn Joins NLET.org as Senior Advisor for Semiconductor and AI Sector
Oakland, CA (September 11) — The National Laboratory for Education Transformation (www.NLET.org), a California R & D nonprofit, announced the appointment of Dan Lamborn as a Senior Advisor for the Semiconductor and AI Sector Workgroup. Lamborn brings nearly two decades of industry knowledge in the semi-conductor and microelectronics ecosystem. His experience at Intel spans process…Read more…

Rethinking Higher Ed for the Automation Age
I am honored to have been interviewed about our work at the National Laboratory for Education Transformation, www.NLET.org, by Wes Smith of the www.PresidentsForum.org, the up and coming consortium of change-agent institutions. See the interview here. The basic message in my President’s Forum video blog is that the online, edtech, work-tech era, as we know…Read more…

Silicon Catalyst Executive Richard Curtin Joins NLET as Advisor for Semiconductor Industry
Oakland, CA (June 13, 2025) — The National Laboratory for Education Transformation (www.NLET.org), a California R & D nonprofit, today announced the appointment of Richard Curtin, Managing Partner at Silicon Catalyst (www.SiliconCatalyst.com) as a Senior Advisor for the NLET Semiconductor Industry and AI Sector workgroup. Curtin brings decades of strategic leadership and deep industry knowledge…Read more…

California Dreaming: Addressing the Training-to-Work “3-Body Problem”
California needs a living, breathing laboratory to experiment and pilot, fail, and try again to solve the three-body training, searching, and hiring problem. This will require stepping out of the well-established comfort zones held by institutions, employers, and foundations to look for common solutions to a common problem across all the sectors in the state.…Read more…