Dr Edward Stritter
Also known as
Skip Stritter

KANDO id: 1044012

Bio

Skip Stritter currently serves as a member of the Technical Committee, a group created to advise the Department of Justice in the Microsoft anti-trust case. Prior to this, he served as head of Cisco Systems’ new business development for broadband wireless data communications. Skip began his career at Bell Labs. From 1976 to 1979, Skip worked at Motorola, where he was chief architect of the Motorola 68000, the first 16-bit microprocessor. Skip was a co-founder of MIPS Technologies, Inc., and again redefined the microprocessor business by delivering the first commercial Reduced Instruction Set Chip (“RISC”) microprocessor. In 1993, Skip founded NeTpower, making workstations and servers for the Microsoft Windows NT market and in 1996, Skip founded Clarity Wireless, a company based on new high data rate digital radio technology. Clarity was acquired by Cisco in November 1998. Skip is a frequent seed round investor, and he also serves on the Board of Overseers of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Skip earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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