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Killen also produces "The Killen Report," a weekly television program cablecast in Silicon Valley. He has conducted almost 500 executive interviews. His guests have included a Noble Prize Winner, the Chairman of the FCC, the Minister of PTT Germany and Stanford University professors, artists and musicians. A brief list of executives from the banking and bank service industries who have appeared on Killen's interview program are:Leonard Schrank, CEO, SWIFT (Belgium) Tim Jones, CEO, MONDEX (UK) Neil Hockaday, Senior VP, Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Michel Lucas, Chairman and CEO, Banques Federation du Credit Mutuel (France) Ron Williams, CEO, Europay Killen continues to produce WebCast interviews for worldwide distribution. In August 2006, Killen & Associates will release an interview with Tony Willis, Computer Architect, Sun Microsystems. Tony and Michael will discuss how the emerging SOA computing environment will enable corporations to cut costs and move faster. In June 2006, Michael returned to South Africa to help a major organization rethink its goals now that it is no longer a legal monopoly. In 2005, he headed the team that produced a major study on Oracle's acquisition strategy. In 2004, he helped a large corporation to plan its acquisition strategy. In 2003, he helped Chinese bankers recognize the need to develop a nationwide infrastructure to facilitate business-to-business payments. In 1997, Michael produced a conference that assisted the moderate Gulf Coast Countries to plan for the day when oil reserves would be depleted. In 1980, the People's Republic of China invited Killen to tour major universities to report on the status of computer science in that country. Killen is the author of four books that provide an extensive view of the development of computing from 1987 to 1992. They include "IBM: The Making of the CommonView," (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988) about IBM's Systems Application Architecture. Since the late 80's, he has been a principal member of the editorial board of the United Kingdom's MiddlewareSpectra, a leading technical journal on middleware. Killen established Wang Laboratory's Applications Programming Department, served as an advisor to Dr. Wang and as Director of Market Research at Rockwell International. He has also written columns for Business Communication Review (BCR), a major Japanese Daily and other publications.