Richard F. Rashid — Researcher Emeritus at Microsoft

Mr. Richard F. Rashid, also known as Rick serves as Researcher Emeritus of Microsoft Corporation and served as its Chief Research Officer. Mr. Rashid is charged with oversight of Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. He also served as Senior Vice President Research of Microsoft Corporation from May 2000 to March 2003. Previously he served as the Director of Microsoft Research, focusing on operating systems, networking and multiprocessors. In that role he was responsible for managing work on key technologies leading to the development of Microsoft Corp.'s interactive TV system and authored a number of patents in areas such as data compression, networking and operating systems. In addition to running Microsoft Research, Mr. Rashid also was instrumental in creating the team that eventually became Microsoft's Digital Media Division and directing Microsoft's first e-commerce group. He was promoted to vice president of Microsoft Research in 1994. Before joining Microsoft in September 1991, he served as professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). After becoming a CMU faculty member in September 1979, he directed the design and implementation of several influential network operating systems, and published dozens of papers about computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols and communications security. During his tenure at CMU, Mr. Rashid developed the Mach multiprocessor operating system, which has been influential in the design of many modern operating systems and remains at the core of a number of commercial systems. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for his work in operating systems and for innovation in industrial research. He also is credited with co-development of one of the earliest networked computer games, Alto Trek, during the mid-1970s. His research interests have focused on artificial intelligence, operating systems, networking and multiprocessors. He has participated in the design and implementation of the University of Rochester RIG operating system from 1975 to 1979, the Rochester Virtual Terminal Management System from 1976 to 1979, the CMU Distributed Sensor Network Testbed from 1980 to 1983 and CMU's SPICE distributed personal computing environment, which included the Accent network operating system from 1981 to 1985. He has published papers on computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols and communication security. He received master of science (1977) and doctoral (1980) degrees in computer science from the University of Rochester. Mr. Rashid graduated with honors in mathematics and comparative literature from Stanford University in 1974.