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Charles Henry Ferguson (born March 24, 1955)[citation needed] is founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc., director and producer of No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq (2007) and Inside Job (2010), following careers as an Internet software entrepreneur and as a writer.
Films
No End In Sight won a special jury prize for documentaries at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 in the documentary feature film category.
For over 20 years, Ferguson had been intensely interested in film, and regularly attended film festivals such as the Telluride Film Festival for over a decade. In mid-2005, after learning that no major documentary film covering U.S. policy in Iraq was being made or was planned, he formed Representational Pictures and began production of No End In Sight.
Inside Job, a feature length documentary about the financial crisis of 2007-2010, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010[1] and the New York Film Festival in October 2010 and is scheduled to be released by Sony Pictures Classics in October 2010.[2]
Education and early career
A native of San Francisco, Ferguson was originally educated as a political scientist. A graduate of Lowell High School, he earned BA in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978,[3] and obtained a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1989. Following his Ph.D., Ferguson conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms. From 1992–1994 Ferguson was an independent consultant, providing strategic consulting to the top managements of U.S. high technology firms including Apple Inc., Xerox, Motorola, and Texas Instruments.
In 1994, Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, one of the earliest Internet software companies, with Randy Forgaard. Vermeer created the first visual website development tool, FrontPage. In early 1996, Ferguson sold Vermeer to Microsoft for $133 million,[4] which integrated FrontPage into Microsoft Office.
After selling Vermeer, Ferguson returned to research and writing. He was a visiting scholar and/or lecturer for several years at MIT and Berkeley, and for three years was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Ferguson is the author of four books and many articles dealing with various aspects of information technology and its relationships to economic, political, and social issues. Ferguson is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a director of the French-American Foundation, and supports several nonprofit organizations.
Books
- Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology (with Charles R. Morris) Three Rivers Press[5] (1993)
- High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars (1999)
- The Broadband Problem: Anatomy of a Market Failure and a Policy Dilemma (2004) ISBN 0-8157-0644-8
- No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos (2008)
Footnotes
- ^ "Is Matt Damon's Narration of a Cannes Doc a Sign that Hollywood is Abandoning Obama? ..." by Logan Hill, New York magazine Entertainment blog, 5/16/10 at 01:45 AM. Retrieved 2010-05-16.
- ^ "At Cannes, the Economy Is On-Screen" by Manohla Dargis, The New York Times, May 16, 2010 (May 17, 2010 on p. C1 of NY ed.). Retrieved 2010-05-17.
- ^ "@cal, great minds online" "UCBerkeley's online alumni community"; Login required; no spec. CFerguson info apparently openly available. Source checked 2010-05-16.
- ^ How filmmaking is like launching a start-up | Tech News on ZDNet
- ^ Amazon page