Biography:Forest Baskett
Forest Baskett | |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Known for | Cray-1 Very Large Scale Integration BCMP network |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
Forest Baskett (born May 11, 1943) 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 supercomputer, was an original pioneer of Very Large Scale Integration,[2] and co-introduced the eponymous BCMP networks.[3]
Baskett received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
He became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1994 for his vision and leadership in the development of hardware and software for high-performance workstations.[4]
Baskett was the doctoral advisor of computer scientists Alan J. Smith[5] and Andy Bechtolsheim while at Stanford and was involved in the founding of Sun Microsystems.[6] He was also the CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D at Silicon Graphics (SGI).[7]
References
- ↑ "Forest Baskett at NEA". NEA.com. https://www.nea.com/team/forest-baskett-phd. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ "Forest Baskett at Cray and contributions to VLSI". www.cs.utexas.edu. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/node/71574. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Baskett, F.; Chandy, K. Mani; Muntz, R.R.; Palacios, F.G. (1975). "Open, closed and mixed networks of queues with different classes of customers". Journal of the ACM 22 (2): 248–260. doi:10.1145/321879.321887.
- ↑ "National Academy of Engineering". www.nae.edu. https://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/MemberDirectory/29926.aspx. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
- ↑ "Forest Baskett, III". https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=92874.
- ↑ Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computer Research, pg. 119. National Academies Press. 1999. doi:10.17226/6323. ISBN 9780309062787. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6323. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ "Forest Baskett". https://www.forbes.com/profile/forest-baskett/.
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