Richard Rashid (born circa 1951 in Fort Madison, Iowa) is an American computer scientist known for creating the Mach operating system kernel at Carnegie Mellon University with Avie Tevanian, a microkernel design that influenced later systems including macOS and iOS. In 1991 he joined Microsoft to found Microsoft Research, serving as its chief research officer and director until 2013 and overseeing more than 850 researchers across a dozen labs worldwide. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 and received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award and the ACM Software System Award.
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1. Richard Rashid (Wikidata)
Wikidata alias: Richard F. Rashid
Richard F. Rashid
Wikidata P166: IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award.
Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of the University of Science and Technology of China
Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of the University of Science and Technology of China.
Wikidata alias: Richard Farris Rashid
Richard Farris Rashid
Wikidata alias: Rick Rashid
Rick Rashid
P569 (date of birth): year 1951
1951
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