Forest Baskett

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

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| name = Forest Baskett

| field = Computer Science

| nationality = American

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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Rice University (BA)|University of Texas at Austin (PhD)}}

| work_institutions = Stanford University

| known_for = Cray-1
Very Large Scale Integration
BCMP network

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| occupation = Venture capitalist at New Enterprise Associates

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Forest Baskett (born May 11, 1943) is an American venture capitalist, computer scientist and former professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nea.com/team/forest-baskett-phd |title=Forest Baskett at NEA |publisher=NEA.com |accessdate=December 27, 2018}}

He is a venture capitalist at New Enterprise Associates. Baskett designed the operating system for the original Cray-1 supercomputer, was an original pioneer of Very Large Scale Integration,{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.utexas.edu/node/71574 |title=Forest Baskett at Cray and contributions to VLSI |publisher=www.cs.utexas.edu |accessdate=December 27, 2018}} and co-introduced the eponymous BCMP networks.{{Cite journal | last1 = Baskett | first1 = F. | last2 = Chandy | first2 = K. Mani | author2-link = K. Mani Chandy | last3 = Muntz | first3 = R.R. | last4 = Palacios | first4 = F.G. | title = Open, closed and mixed networks of queues with different classes of customers | journal = Journal of the ACM | volume = 22 | issue = 2 | pages = 248–260 | year = 1975 | doi = 10.1145/321879.321887 | s2cid = 15204199 | doi-access = free }}