When Jay Walker ’77 began Priceline.com at the height of the dotcom boom, little did he know that his creation would soon become a billion dollar enterprise. Now the University will recognize Walker, the founder of one of the most successful sites on the web, as Cornell’s Entrepreneur of the Year.

The annual Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration brings over 500 current students, alumni, faculty and staff together to participate in a two-day symposium that features a variety of industries, including hospitality, real estate, health care, agriculture and computing and information science. This year, 11 colleges and programs are participating in the program in an effort to make the celebration more comprehensive.

Getting the busy CEOs of Citigroup, Nike Inc. or PepsiCo to come to a Cornell classroom is an arduous task. A near-substitute, however, is made possible with eClips, a free and open online collection of nearly 11,000 video clips of interviews and presentations by business experts.

eClips was initiated more than a decade ago by Prof. Deborah Streeter, applied economics and management. Designed for classroom use, most of the clips are only a few minutes long and can be integrated into PowerPoint presentations. The free and open website now boasts users in more than 1,200 universities in over 75 countries.

Recently, Streeter announced that the online video library has been licensed to a startup company called eClipsNet, LLC.