My Recent Activities

YEAR: 2000-2001
Company: CS-LIVE
My Involvement: Member of the board of directors, Member of Audit & Compensation committee

Cs-live is a technology-focused software development company located in Ottawa, Ontario, providing real-time communications using the Internet as the delivery medium. Cs-live technology enables companies with a web presence to maximize the effectiveness of the Internet with applications that provide enhanced real-time communications over the web, including live chat and rich media.
cs-live.com Inc was incorporated on January 13, 2000.

On July 28, 2000, cs-live.com inc. became a public company through a reverse take-over of ADR Explorations Ltd. The company is listed on the Canadian Exchange (CDNX). Our Stock Symbol is YCZ.

DIRECTORS:
John Roberts;
Kasra Meshkin;
Brian Penney;
Manfred Leventhal;
Edward Karpovits;
Deborah Sterling;

Status: Cs-Live was purchased by 800America

800America.com Inc. (NASDAQ - ACCO), a business-to-business, business-to-consumer and technology company, acquired the assets of cs-live.com Inc. in September of 2001. As part of the transaction, 800America.com received all of cs-live.com's intellectual property, including cs-live's technology, the cs-live name, all copyrights, domain names owned and patents pending. In addition, the 800America.com received cs-live.com's existing customer lists plus certain other assets.

YEAR: 2001-2002
Company: Ieee.org (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)

My Involvement: Senior Member & Member of TG 1 - Security Committee (Project 1583)
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop an evaluation standard for election voting equipment. The standard will provide technical specifications for electronic, mechanical, and human factors that can be used by manufacturers of voting machines or by those purchasing such machines.

email: meshkin@ieee.org
email: kasra@computer.org

Update: Workshop on Election Standards and Technology

January 31 - February 1, 2002
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005

My Memberships

Association for computing machinery
Status: Senior Member Since 1998

Founded in 1947, ACM is the world's first educational and scientific computing society. Today, our members — over 80,000 computing professionals and students world-wide — and the public turn to ACM for authoritative publications, pioneering conferences, and visionary leadership for the new millennium.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Status: Senior Member Since 1996

The IEEE ("eye-triple-E") helps advance global prosperity by promoting the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electrical and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession.