Dyson, Esther, 1951-

LC control no.	n 97073475
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Dyson, Esther, 1951- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1951-07-14
Place of birth	Zürich (Switzerland)
Affiliation	Harvard University
Found in	Release 2.0, c1997: CIP t.p. (Esther Dyson) data sheet (b. 07-14-51) NUCMC data from Computer Hist. Museum for Her Papers, 1974-2001 (Esther Dyson was born July 14, 1951, in Zürich, Switzerland, to physicist Freeman Dyson and mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson. At age 16, Dyson was accepted to Harvard University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1972. After graduation, she went to work at Forbes as a fact-checker and then reporter from 1974 to 1977. In 1977, she started working as a Wall Street securities analyst for New Court Securities (later called Rothschild) and then Oppenheimer and Company, specializing in high-tech and software companies. In 1982, Dyson began working with Rosen Research firm and its founder, venture capitalist Ben Rosen. The next year, she bought the firm from Rosen, which included the newsletter Rosen's Electronic News and the annual PC Forum conference. She renamed the firm EDventure Holdings and the newsletter Release 1.0, and began organizing PC Forum, which she helmed each year until its last conference in 2006. After Dyson took it over, PC Forum was considered one of the premier conferences in the technology industry. She has written books (Release 1.0 and Release 2.0))