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Jay Walker Shares Thoughts on Education

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  • Date Added : 4/27/2005
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Jay Walker

  • President, Walker Digital
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1955 (Age: 69 years old)
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Biography

Jay Walker is one of America's best-known inventors and entrepreneurs and is one of a dozen or so living inventors worldwide to hold 200 patents in multiple fields.

Walker, and a team at Walker Digital, LLC, his invention laboratory, created the central ideas behind priceline.com, the groundbreaking "name-your-own-price" company for airline tickets and hotel rooms.

Walker has also created a number of other successful businesses, including New Sub Services (now named Synapse) a company he co-founded and that revolutionized the magazine subscription industry and was recently sold to AOL Time Warner for $600 million. Walker also co-founded Target Communications, a conference and publishing company which was sold to Primedia in 2000.

Mr. Walker is currently chairman of Walker Digital, LLC, a Stamford, Conn.-based laboratory that invents entirely new ways for businesses to operate and serve consumers. Walker Digital is not a consultancy, but a privately funded active research laboratory that use long-term interdisciplinary invention teams to create solutions in the same manner and style as the original Edison laboratory. Successful inventions are licensed to industry or used as the core intellectual property of innovative startups for which the laboratory provides both personnel and funding. To date, Walker Digital has invented over 600 proprietary business methods addressing dozens of significant business problems in a wide range of industries such as travel, data security, retail, automotive, restaurants, groceries, financial services, gaming and entertainment.

Walker's inventions and innovations have been widely recognized. He has twice been recognized by the editors of TIME magazine as one of the 50 most influential business leaders in the digital age. Business Week selected Jay as one of its 25 Internet pioneers most responsible for "changing the competitive landscape of almost every industry in the world." Newsweek named him as one of three executives at the forefront of the Internet commerce revolution.

Walker and his wife have two children and live in Connecticut. He holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Relations from Cornell University.

I certainly couldn't give you a road map for the change of education. But I think there are certain things that are very obvious. First of all, the educational structure we have does not work, and cannot work. Okay. It is industrial educational structure. It is factory structure. Okay. So tha...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 13 Jay Walker Discusses Impact of Machine Invention on Society
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
  • Jay Walker
  • 4 min. 38 sec.
Video 2 of 13 Jay Walker States Machine That Matters Must Be More Mind-Focused Than Muscle-Focused
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
  • Jay Walker
  • 5 min. 11 sec.
Video 3 of 13 Jay Walker Discusses Information and Wiring Up of People and The World
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
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Video 4 of 13 Jay Walker Makes Predictions For Future of Digital Age
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
  • Jay Walker
  • 4 min. 26 sec.
Video 5 of 13 Jay Walker Predicts That Internet Will Take On Larger Than Life Function
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
  • Jay Walker
  • 2 min. 39 sec.
Video 6 of 13 Jay Walker Provides Theoretical Examples of Future Changes
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
  • Jay Walker
  • 3 min. 23 sec.
Video 7 of 13 Jay Walker Shares Reality For First Time, People Can Think For A Living
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
  • Jay Walker
  • 3 min. 40 sec.
Video 8 of 13 Jay Walker States Manufacturing Technology Has Resulted In Less People Making More Things
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
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  • 2 min. 3 sec.
Video 9 of 13 Jay Walker Shares Thoughts on Self Learning
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
  • Jay Walker
  • 1 min. 50 sec.
Video 10 of 13 Jay Walker Shares Thoughts on Health and Privacy Issues Related To Wireless Technology
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
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  • 2 min. 1 sec.
Video 11 of 13 Jay Walker Shares Thoughts on Human And Technology Viruses
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
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  • 2 min. 17 sec.
Video 12 of 13 Jay Walker Shares Thoughts on Education
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
  • Jay Walker
  • 3 min. 15 sec.
Video 13 of 13 Jay Walker Discusses Future Plans at Walker Digital
  • Jay Walker - Lecture - Cyber Revolution: The Massive Transformation of Business, Culture, Research and Teaching
  • 4/27/2005
  • Jay Walker
  • 2 min. 5 sec.

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