Forest Baskett

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]

References
  1. "Forest Baskett at NEA". NEA.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
  2. "Forest Baskett at Cray and contributions to VLSI". www.cs.utexas.edu. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
  3. 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.
  4. "National Academy of Engineering". www.nae.edu. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  5. "Forest Baskett, III". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  6. Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computer Research, pg. 119. National Academies Press. 1999. doi:10.17226/6323. ISBN 9780309062787. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
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