VP of Autodesk Labs, Brian Mathews, recently presented the vision and mission of Autodesk Labs to the Autodesk Board of Directors. Though as employees we pay attention to who makes up our board, I thought many of you as users of our products and services may not have looked up this information on our site.

Company	Name	Background
	Carl Bass	Autodesk, Buzzsaw.com, Ithaca Software, McAfee, iRise, Cornell Computing and Information Science, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology)
Independent Consultant	Crawford W. Beveridge, CBE	eSilicon, Sun Microsystems, Scottish Enterprise, People and Places, HP, DEC, Analog Devices
IDI	J. Hallam Dawson	IDI Associates, OneCalifornia Bank, Crocker National Bank, The First National Bank of Chicago
	Dr. Per-Kristian Halvorsen	Intuit, Iron Mountain, HP Labs, Xerox PARC, Symmantec, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System, Cyber College at the University of Arkansas
	Sean M. Maloney	Intel, Clearwire Corporation
	Mary T. McDowell	Nokia, HP-Compaq
	Charles J. Robel	McAfee, Informatica Corp, DemandTec, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
	Steven M. West	Emerging Company Partners LLC, Cisco Systems, Hitachi, EDS, nCUBE, LogLogic, CreekPath Systems, LandSonar, Corvigo, Gadzoox Networks, Florida A&M School of Engineering, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

Though Brian shared many topics, a few of his points included:

We get lots of press.

Thanks to all of you who write about Autodesk Labs in your magazines, publications, and blogs.

Our community is growing.

Thanks to everyone who downloads a utility, tries a technology, and provides feedback through email, discussion forums, or social media.

Sharing the Who and the What is alive in the lab.