SPEECH TO DEMONSTRATE INDUSTRY IMPACT OF STANDARDS-BASED INNOVATIONS, SUCH AS PCI EXPRESS

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SPEECH TO DEMONSTRATE INDUSTRY IMPACT OF STANDARDS-BASED INNOVATIONS, SUCH AS PCI EXPRESS
29 July 2005 - National Instruments Corporation (UK)

Jeff Clarke, senior vice president, Dell, Inc., will deliver the closing keynote address to more than 2,000 attendees at National Instruments NIWeek 2005, the world's leading virtual instrumentation conference.

Scheduled to take place at 9 a.m. on Thursday, August 18, at the Austin Convention Center, Clarke's keynote will address the role of industry standards in the evolution of enterprise computing. Drawing on his more than 18 years of experience at Dell, Clarke, an electrical engineer by training, will discuss how standards-based innovation impacts the industry and how this innovation can be used to address real customer requirements.

"We are pleased to welcome Dell's Jeff Clarke as guest speaker at NIWeek this year," said John Graff, NI vice president of marketing and customer operations. "Dell is an industry leader with a long history of innovation, and Clarke's vision of the future of technology will illustrate to the NIWeek audience how open standard-based computing will continue to drive virtual instrumentation."

Clarke serves as senior vice president of the Dell Product Group. He is responsible for Dell's strategic technology direction, as well as the worldwide development, marketing, quality and delivery into manufacturing of all Dell workstations, servers, and networking and storage systems. Clarke joined Dell in 1987 as a quality engineer and has served in a variety of engineering and management roles. He moved into product development in 1989 and was promoted to director of desktop development in 1995. In 1997, Clarke was responsible for launching Dell's Precision workstation product line, which attained the No. 1 worldwide market share position under his leadership. Prior to this, Clarke was vice president and general manager of the Relationship Product Group, which includes the OptiPlex, Latitude and Precision business lines. Under his leadership, all three businesses achieved the No. 1 worldwide position in their respective markets. Clarke received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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About: National Instruments Corporation (UK)
National Instruments is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Utilising the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,100 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. In 2003, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past five years, FORTUNE magazine named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

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