William "Bill" N. Carrico Jr. (born February 12, 1950) is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and businessman who founded several technology companies in

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. He was the president and

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, senior vice president of

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, and chairman of

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Education

Carrico graduated from

Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private university, private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California, United States. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university' ...

in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE).

Career

Carrico worked for

Fairchild Semiconductor Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument by the " traitorous eight" who defected from Shockley Semi ...

and

Zilog Zilog, Inc. is an American manufacturer of microprocessors, microcontrollers, and application-specific embedded System on a chip, system-on-chip (SoC) products. The company was founded in 1974 by Federico Faggin and Ralph Ungermann, who were soo ...

. He and

Judith Estrin Judith "Judy" L. Estrin (born 1954/1955) is an American entrepreneur, business executive, and philanthropist. She co-founded eight technology companies. Estrin worked with Vinton Cerf on the Transmission Control Protocol project at Stanford Univers ...

co-founded

Bridge Communications Bridge Communications, Inc. was an American technology company founded in 1981 by Judy Estrin and Bill Carrico in Mountain View, California. The company developed computer network bridges, routers, and communications servers, specializing in i ...

in 1981, which merged with

in 1987. The couple joined

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in 1988. Carrico and Estrin also co-founded Precept Software in 1995 (acquired by

in 1998) and

in 2000.

References

Santa Clara University alumni Living people Engineers from California American venture capitalists American computer scientists American electrical engineers Businesspeople from California 1950 births {{Compu-scientist-stub