Forest Baskett
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Forest Baskett is an American venture capitalist, computer scientist and former professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.[1]
He is a venture capitalist at New Enterprise Associates. Baskett designed the operating system for the original Cray-1 super-computer and was an original pioneer of Very Large Scale Integration.[2]
Baskett received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.[3]
Baskett was the doctoral advisor of computer scientist Andy Bechtolsheim while at Stanford, and was involved in the founding of Sun Microsystems.[4]
References
- ^ "Forest Baskett at NEA". NEA.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ "Forest Baskett at Cray and contributions to VLSI". www.cs.utexas.edu. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ "National Academy of Engineering". www.nae.edu. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
- ^ "Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computer Research, pg. 119". National Academies Press. Retrieved December 27, 2018.