Len Shustek
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| education = PhD, Stanford University
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Leonard J. "Len" Shustek is a founder of networking companies Nestar Systems and Network General and a former chairman of the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California.
Background and career
Shustek received BS and MS from Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite web|url=http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Shustek/ShustekTour.html|title=A Walk Through "Visible Storage"|first=Len|last=Shustek}} After earning his PhD from Stanford University, he became an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. After leaving the faculty, he co-founded Nestar Systems in 1979, and Network General in 1986.{{Cite magazine|last=Petrosky|first=Mary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aR0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15|title=Network General smells success with Sniffer|volume=4|issue=25|page=15|magazine=Network World|date=1987-06-22|publisher=International Data Group}} In 2003, he provided a $2.5 million endowment for the "Leonard J. Shustek Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Chair" at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He has also taught computer science at Stanford University.{{Cite web|url=https://computerhistory.org/profile/leonard-j-shustek/|title=Leonard J. Shustek|website=Computer History Museum|date=4 February 2024 }}
In 1972, Shustek proposed using microcode for evaluating the performance of computer systems. He received BS and MS from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn.
In a 1999 interview, Shustek reflected upon the failure of major computer suppliers decades earlier to recognize the need for computer networks. According to Shustek, computer scientist Harry Saal resigned his position at IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, because he could not convince IBM to develop local area networks. Saal then convinced Shustek to give up his position as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon, and together they founded the networking company Nestar.
References
|title=Shustek, Len (Leonard J.) oral history
|publisher=Computer History Museum
|author=Gardner Hendrie
|date=2002-07-16
|url=https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/06/102657987-05-01-acc.pdf
|accessdate=2021-11-22
}}
|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery
|conference=Proceeding MICRO 5 Conference record of the 5th annual workshop on Microprogramming
|pages=42–50
|chapter-url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=776383|accessdate=2012-10-29
|doi=10.1145/776378.776383
|chapter=Microprogrammed implementation of computer measurement techniques
|year=1972
|last1=Saal
|first1=Harry J
|last2=Shustek
|title = Conference record of the 5th annual workshop on Microprogramming - MICRO 5|first2=Leonard J
|isbn=9781450373692
|osti=1442245
|s2cid=16709945
}}
|title=Overview of Computer History Museum
|publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek
|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=105868&privcapId=5909764&previousCapId=6330458&previousTitle=Proofpoint,%20Inc.|access-date=2012-10-29
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202233841/http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=105868&privcapId=5909764&previousCapId=6330458&previousTitle=Proofpoint,%2520Inc. |archive-date=2017-02-02 |url-status=dead}}
|author=Stephanie Rosenbloom
|title=Professor Joins Polytechnic
|date=March 12, 2003
|work=New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/12/nyregion/bulletin-board-professor-joins-polytechnic.html
|accessdate=2012-10-30
}}
|author=Burg
|title=The Triumph of Ethernet: Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard (Innovation and Technology in the World E)|date=August 1, 2002
|publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-4094-4}}
|author = Urs von Burg and Martin Kenney
|title = Venture capital and the birth of the local area networking industry
|date = September 1998
|publisher = Elsevier Science B.V.
|url = http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/kenney/articles_files/kenney%20and%20von%20burg%20research%20policy.pdf
|accessdate = 2014-11-04
|journal = Research Policy
|volume = 29
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141105071343/http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/kenney/articles_files/kenney%20and%20von%20burg%20research%20policy.pdf
|archive-date = 2014-11-05
|url-status = dead
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External links
{{Commons category|Len Shustek}}
- [http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/kenney/articles_files/Capital%20and%20Technology:%20Venture%20Capital%20and%20the%20Establishment%20of%20the%20Local%20Area%20Networking%20Industry%20in%20Silicon%20Valley.pdf In computer infancy, Saal and Shustek convince skeptics to invest in networking.]
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