Such a treatment killed 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger in 1999 in a gene therapy experiment.
He told Gelsinger that he didn't appreciate sitting through head-nodding meetings that lacked the drama of the old Intel.
"That we can go through downturns and come out stronger is the mark of a great company, " says Intel's Gelsinger.
Gelsinger oversaw acquisition of a company called Greenplum, which does data analysis for outfits like the New York Stock Exchange and T-Mobile.
Vellante points out that several earlier guests note the issues surrounding storage and virtualization, and Gelsinger responds with some highlights from his earlier presentation.
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When the executives filed out, Grove stayed behind for a one-on-one meeting with Patrick Gelsinger, who runs its largest division: desktop and server chips.
In the most notorious gene therapy disaster, teenager Jesse Gelsinger died after being injected with a gene therapy treatment at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.
"It's a lot like Michael Phelps, " Intel Senior Vice President Patrick Gelsinger told a room packed with hundreds of developers eager to hear about Intel's next-generation processor.
Most prominently, teenager Jesse Gelsinger died from multiple organ failure a few days after receiving a massive dose of virus-based gene therapy in a trial at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sometimes these viruses have provoked strong immune reactions which is what caused the death of Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year-old American who had a damaged gene that prevented his liver from making an enzyme to break down ammonia.
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"It's a lot like Michael Phelps, " Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Senior Vice President Patrick Gelsinger told a room packed with hundreds of developers eager to hear about Intel's next-generation processor.
EMC, which owns a majority stake in VMware, installed Microsoft veteran Maritz as chief executive, and also hired Pat Gelsinger, formerly of Intel, as the head of the value-added software (like security and database analysis) that EMC puts atop its core storage business.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that a number of high profile Valley execs have turned down the top job at AMD, including Apple COO Tim Cook, Oracle Co-President Mark Hurd, EMC COO Pat Gelsinger and Carlyle Group managing director Greg Summe.
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