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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