Today at the
meeting of the commission for modernization and technological development of the economy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev confirmed
zero tax rates at Skolkovo , and also reported another interesting news: 70-year-old Craig Barrett, the former CEO of Intel (1998- 2005) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Intel (2005-2009), who left Intel in May 2009 due to age.

In the photo, Craig Barrett shakes hands with Bill Gates at the Windows XP presentation (October 24, 2001 in New York).
Craig Barrett is a graduate of Stanford (1964), a PhD in materials science, the author of over 40 research papers on microstructures in materials, and the author of the textbook “The Principles of Engineering Materials”, which is still being studied. After a small scientific career, he went to work as a manager at Intel, where he climbed all the steps of the service ladder from 1974 to 2009. I have been to Russia many times, including in the Novosibirsk Academgorodok.
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Russian Academician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000, Zhores Alferov, and American biochemist, professor of structural biology at Stanford University, Nobel Prize winner in 2006, Roger David Kornberg will also co-chair the Skolkovo Scientific and Technical Council.