Internet visionary Sheldon Laube, chairman and CEO of the recently-launched CenterBeam, Inc. and the co-founder of USWeb/CKS, will discuss "Making the Internet Work for Small Business" at 6 p.m. Oct. 29 in the DePaul Center, 8^th floor, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. The free, public address is part of DePaul University’s School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI) Distinguished Lecture Series. A reception follows the lecture.

Laube, former executive vice president and chief technology officer of USWeb/CKS, the largest professional services firm focused entirely on the Internet, launched CenterBeam, Inc., a start-up aimed at the small and mid-sized business markets, in August. In his lecture, Laube will discuss the revolutionary changes Internet technology offers.

Laube's talk coincides with the opening this fall of DePaul CTI's new master’s degree in e-commerce technology and its e-commerce research institute. The institute will conduct applied research with the e-commerce industry.

Laube is well known as a visionary technologist as well as a pragmatic development executive. He co-founded USWeb Corp. in 1995. USWeb/CKS has become a leading force in the field of electronic commerce, developing Web sites for 46 of the top Fortune 100 companies.

Before joining USWeb/CKS, Laube was chief technology officer for Novell, where he led the company’s Advanced Technology Group. Prior to joining Novell, Laube was director of information and technology with Price Waterhouse, the global $4 billion professional services firm.

Laube was a co-founder of the Consumer Financial Institute and served as vice president of research and development for the group before joining Price Waterhouse in 1986. He also serves on the board of Parable, LLC, a multimedia Internet software firm.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Undergraduate Scholars Program of Case Western Reserve University. In 1994 Computer Reseller News named him one of the world's top 25 computer executives.

The next lecture in the series will be held on Nov. 19, when John Mallery, research scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver an address on "Introspection and Computation."

For more information, consult CTI’s Web site at www.cs.depaul.edu or call 312/362-8381.