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Dell Senior Vice President Jeff Clarke to Deliver Keynote at National Instruments NIWeek 2005; Speech to Demonstrate Industry Impact of Standards-Based Innovations, such as PCI Express

Business Wire, July 29, 2005

AUSTIN, Texas -- Jeff Clarke, senior vice president, Dell, Inc., will deliver the closing keynote address to more than 2,000 attendees at National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI) NIWeek 2005, the world's leading virtual instrumentation conference.

Scheduled to take place at 9 a.m. on Thursday, August 18, at the Austin Convention Center, Clarke's keynote will address the role of industry standards in the evolution of enterprise computing. Drawing on his more than 18 years of experience at Dell, Clarke, an electrical engineer by training, will discuss how standards-based innovation impacts the industry and how this innovation can be used to address real customer requirements.

"We are pleased to welcome Dell's Jeff Clarke as guest speaker at NIWeek this year," said John Graff, NI vice president of marketing and customer operations. "Dell is an industry leader with a long history of innovation, and Clarke's vision of the future of technology will illustrate to the NIWeek audience how open standard-based computing will continue to drive virtual instrumentation."

Clarke serves as senior vice president of the Dell Product Group. He is responsible for Dell's strategic technology direction, as well as the worldwide development, marketing, quality and delivery into manufacturing of all Dell workstations, servers, and networking and storage systems. Clarke joined Dell in 1987 as a quality engineer and has served in a variety of engineering and management roles. He moved into product development in 1989 and was promoted to director of desktop development in 1995. In 1997, Clarke was responsible for launching Dell's Precision workstation product line, which attained the No. 1 worldwide market share position under his leadership. Prior to this, Clarke was vice president and general manager of the Relationship Product Group, which includes the OptiPlex, Latitude and Precision business lines. Under his leadership, all three businesses achieved the No. 1 worldwide position in their respective markets. Clarke received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

About NIWeek

Since 1995, engineers, scientists and educators worldwide have gathered at NIWeek to learn about cost-efficient, flexible technologies for creating advanced test, control and design solutions. Last year, NI hosted more than 2,000 attendees at NIWeek and released a record number of new products. NIWeek 2005 begins Aug. 16 for three full days of interactive technical sessions, summits, exhibitions and hands-on workshops. Register at www.ni.com/niweek.> About National Instruments

National Instruments (www.ni.com) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation -- a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,600 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. In 2004, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

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