How The NeoCons Stole Freedom
This is NOT Glenn Hightower
This is NOT Glenn Hightower
Meet the head of Dan O'Dowd - too large for the body and bearing no resemblance to
Glenn Hightower
in any way
Meet the head of Dan O'Dowd - too large for the body and bearing no resemblance to
Glenn Hightower
in any way
Glenn Hightower was an entirely different kind of person.
Cal Tech News Vol. 9, No. 3, April 1975 Page 2
Article on Glenn Hightower and his partner, John S. Denker from Cal Tech News Vol. 9, No. 3, April 1975 Page 2
The values operating with Hightower's decision-making show a focus on the needs of people who are deaf, and meeting their needs despite the fact he realizes this will not be a wealth-making use of his time. But he believes he can help people. Hightower was defrauded of his ownership in the company he had funded, Green Hills Software, Inc., in 1998 through a conspiracy between Dan O'Dowd and Craig Franklin, then Senior Vice President.
The values operating with Hightower's decision-making show a focus on the needs of people who are deaf, and meeting their needs despite the fact he realizes this will not be a wealth-making use of his time. But he believes he can help people. Hightower was defrauded of his ownership in the company he had funded, Green Hills Software, Inc., in 1998 through a conspiracy between Dan O'Dowd and Craig Franklin, then Senior Vice President.
MEDIA RELEASE - Caltech's Annual Business Plan Competition Supports Start-Up Company
From: California Institute of Technology News
07/15/1999
Editor: Originally, there were three founding partners for Green Hills Software. The third partner, Carl Rosenberg, was 'bought out,' though forced out would be more appropriate terminology, in the early 90s using the same 'sudden death partnership agreement which would later be used to get rid of Glenn. I found the article above, copied below from my Drone Free Zone site, several years ago. The original link to the source was broken. A search of the CalTech online archive also failed. A google search for the document brought up
July 15, 1999
PASADENA—The start-up company Synthetic Sound Lab, which is developing a new generation of music synthesis and composition tools, has been awarded $10,000 from the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering in the annual California Institute of Technology Business Plan Competition.
Synthetic Sound Lab is the brainchild of Mike Davies, a Caltech graduate student in electrical engineering, recent Caltech graduates Mike Astle and Steve McCoy, and current Caltech students Jeremy Kemper and Michael Fitzgerald. "We will be offering a combination of computer software and hardware products, marketed at amateur and professional musicians, that will allow our customers to express their musical ideas with greater ease and finer expression," says Davies, who formulated the business plan as an undergraduate working on an electrical engineering project.
Dean Schonfeld, the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering's manager of technology transfer, explains, "We're creating a new industry. Unlike other more traditional engineering centers, we can't rely exclusively on established companies to transfer our technology to industry. By supporting competitions such as this, we hope to encourage students to make the transition from the academic world to the business world." Working to translate the understanding of biological systems into a new class of electronic and mechanical devices, the center's goal is to create an enabling technology useful to industry.
The Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering's contribution to this year's business plan competition allowed for two $10,000 prizes to be awarded. The other $10,000, sponsored by Glenn Hightower, a Caltech alumnus and the founder of Green Hill Software Inc., a leading supplier of software development tools for embedded applications, went to real MOVES, a start-up company specializing in computer animation.
In its second year, the Caltech Business Plan Competition, conducted by the Caltech Industrial Relations Center, is designed to encourage, appraise, and promote business ideas from within the Caltech community. The two $10,000 prizes represent an investment designed to serve as start-up capital for the new venture. In addition, other organizations supporting the competition may offer the new venture start-up professional and business services. The winning business plans must both impress the panel of reviewers and provide the best investment opportunity.
Founded in 1891, Caltech has an enrollment of some 2,000 students, and an academic staff of about 280 professorial faculty and 130 research faculty. The Institute has more than 19,000 alumni. Caltech employs a staff of more than 1,700 on campus and 5,300 at JPL.
Over the years, 27 Nobel Prizes and four Crawford Prizes have been awarded to faculty members and alumni. Forty-four Caltech faculty members and alumni have received the National Medal of Science; and eight alumni (two of whom are also trustees), two additional trustees, and one faculty member have won the National Medal of Technology. Since 1958, 13 faculty members have received the annual California Scientist of the Year award. On the Caltech faculty there are 77 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and on the faculty and Board of Trustees, 69 members of the National Academy of Sciences and 49 members of the National Academy of Engineering.
Written by Sue McHugh
Contact:
Caltech Media Relations
mr@caltech.edu
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[a.] Glenn Hightower vs. Daniel O'Dowd, Case No. BS 053127, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, September 17, 1998, DECLARATION OF WAYNE B. WEISMAN FILED BY APPLICANT GLENN HIGHTOWER IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION”
[b.] Glenn Hightower vs. Daniel O'Dowd, Case No. BS 053127, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, HIGHTOWER'S OPPOSITION TO O'DOWD'S MOTION FOR ORDER DISSOLVING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION, December 15, 1999, Filing Date September 2, 1998;
[c.] Glenn Hightower vs. Daniel O'Dowd, Case No. BS 053127, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, RESPONSE TO OBJECTION TO (PROPOSED FIRST MODIFIED INJUNCTION, December 15, 1999; September 17, 1998
[d.] Glenn Hightower vs. Daniel O'Dowd, Case No. BS 053127, In the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Second Appellate District, REMITITUR,” Copy of original order, opinion or decision entered in the above-entitled cause of July 1, 1999 and that this order, opinion or decision has now become final, signed by Joseph A. Lane, Clerk, September 3, 1999. Opinion Hightower is likely to prevail if there is proof of unlawful action by O'Dowd.
[e.] AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION No. 72Y 180 0960 98, a true and exact copy of the originals that are in my possession, which is a series of documents generated by the lawsuit filed by Hightower against Dan O'Dowd over O'Dowd's exercise of their sudden death partnership agreement on January 1998. The decision that unlawful action is not proved.
I was forced to sign a Settlement Agreement in February 2001. This was written by attorneys hired by Green Hills Software, Inc., and was reviewed at request, by a forensic legal expert from the FBI who rendered the opinion it was entirely unenforceable.
Glenn should have returned my calls. Through Morgan, to whom Craig was then sharing his exciting stories of how he and Dan had stolen GHS from Glenn, I learned about the lawsuit. A friend of mine got the papers for me from the court and I scanned them in for my own records and other possible uses. Glenn has since died, so time will tell how these will be used.