Eric Emerson Schmidt, born 27 April 1955, is an American businessman and former computer engineer. As an intern at Bell Labs in 1975 he co-authored Lex, a program that generates lexical analysers for the Unix operating system, which became a standard tool for building compilers and text processors. He joined Sun Microsystems in 1983 and held various roles there, then served as chief executive officer of Novell from 1997 to 2001. He was chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and its executive chairman from 2011 to 2015, and then executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet until 2017. He later served on the boards of several universities and companies and founded the philanthropic venture Schmidt Futures.
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born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former computer engineer
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born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former computer engineer
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co-author of Lex, a software program to generate lexical analysers for the Unix computer operating system
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co-author of Lex, a software program to generate lexical analysers for the Unix computer operating system
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