Leonard J. Shustek is the chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Computer
Museum History Center. Len Shustek's
educational background is in computer science (MS, PhD, Stanford
University) by way of physics (BS, MS, Polytechnic
University in Brooklyn NY). After graduation he joined the faculty at
Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant
professor of Computer Science.
In 1979 he co-founded Nestar Systems Inc., an early producer of networked
client-server computer systems. In 1986
he was co-founder of Network General Corporation, a manufacturer of network
analysis tools, notably "The
Sniffer(tm)". The company became Network Associates Inc. after merging with
McAfee Associates and PGP. Shustek
is now semi-retired and serves on the boards of several high-tech startups
and three non-profit organizations.
He teaches occasionally as a consulting professor at Stanford University,
and is a partner at VenCraft, a small "angel
financing" venture capital fund. He is also a trustee of Polytechnic
University. Write to him at
shustek@computerhistory.org