What I'd really like to see is Apple and Microsoft figure out some way to allow third parties to do multitasking and run in the background.

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So, one figure, one background, fairly limited customization choices and 30 seconds.

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Hennessy, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science with 23 years at Stanford, has the right background to figure out the university's new role.

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Would a former top business figure - say Peter Griffiths from the Principality, or someone with a strong background in academia and public service reform like Professor Sir Adrian Webb, currently a non-executive director of the Welsh Government - bring outside expertise and ethos despite having no civil service experience?

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