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EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY OF DIRECTORS
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:
Each of the undersigned directors of Agilent Technologies, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints D. Craig Nordlund
and Marie Oh Huber, and each of them with power to act alone, his or her true
and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to execute a Registration Statement or Registration Statements on
Form S-8 or other appropriate form, under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, relating to up to 19,000,000 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant
to certain Company stock options and restricted stock, and any and all
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to such Registration
Statements, and to file such Registration Statements and any and all amendments
thereto, with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes, as he or she might or could do in person, thereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his substitute or
substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of May, 2000.
/s/ Edward W. Barnholt /s/ Walter B. Hewlett
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Edward W. Barnholt Walter B. Hewlett
/s/ James Cullen /s/ Heidi Kunz
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James Cullen Heidi Kunz
/s/ David M. Lawrence
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Thomas E. Everhart David M. Lawrence, M.D.
/s/ Gerald Grinstein /s/ Randall L. Tobias
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Gerald Grinstein Randall L. Tobias
