Forest Baskett (born May 11, 1943) is an American venture capitalist, computer scientist and former professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.[1]
Forest Baskett | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Venture capitalist at New Enterprise Associates |
| Known for | Cray-1 Very Large Scale Integration BCMP network |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
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 edit
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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. S2CID 15204199.
- ^ "National Academy of Engineering". www.nae.edu. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
- ^ "Forest Baskett, III". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computer Research, pg. 119. National Academies Press. 1999. doi:10.17226/6323. ISBN 9780309062787. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ "Forest Baskett". Forbes. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
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