Suhas S. Patil (born 1944) is an

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entrepreneur, academic, and

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. He founded

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, a

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company. Patil's work has covered computer architecture, parallel processing computers, very-large-scale integration devices, and

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automation software. He also serves on the boards of The Tech Museum and the World Affairs Council of Northern California. He is known for describing the "

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" for

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in 1971.

Early life and education

Patil grew up in

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, India. His father was the first person in the family to go to a university and get an engineering degree and worked at

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while Patil was growing up. Patil went to study intermediate science at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and then to the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He attended the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

for his masters and doctorate degrees, graduating in 1967 and 1970 respectively.

Career

From 1970 until 1975, Patil was assistant professor of electrical engineering at

. While at MIT, he also served as assistant director of

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(Multi-Access Computer), the largest computer science laboratory in the U.S, where the timesharing computer system was developed. At MIT, he worked in the area of computer architecture and related topics. As a gift to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Patil awarded $1.5 million for the construction of the Suhas and Jayashree Patil Conference Center at the

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. From 1977 to 1981, he was a member of the faculty at the

University of Utah The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General A ...

School of Computing. Patil founded Patil Systems, Inc., in 1981 in

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, which was renamed as

in 1984 when it moved to Silicon Valley. He has been the Chairman of Cirrus Logic since its founding and

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since 1997. He is currently the Chairman of Digité, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of Cradle Technologies. Patil co-founded a global not for profit organization, the TiE – The Ind-US Entrepreneurs in 1992 with successful entrepreneurs and businessowners of Indian origin in Silicon Valley to mentor entrepreneurs and young companies. He served as TiE's first president.

Personal life

Patil's son is DJ Patil, who was the first Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy.

References

External links

Biography in IIT Kharagpur Alumni Directory
{{DEFAULTSORT:Patil, Suhas Living people American people of Indian descent American businesspeople Indian emigrants to the United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni 1944 births Businesspeople from Jharkhand University of Utah faculty IIT Kharagpur alumni MIT School of Engineering faculty American electrical engineers Indian electrical engineers Marathi people American people of Marathi descent

Early life and education

Career

Personal life

See also

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