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William Strecker, PhD

1969 HERTZ FELLOW

MAKING HISTORY

William Strecker is executive vice president and Chief Technology officer of In-Q-Tel, the nonprofit strategic investment firm that connects the U.S. intelligence community with leading technology companies. Strecker earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, completing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering there, with his fellowship beginning in 1969. He is best known for his foundational contributions to computer architecture at DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), where he was chief architect of the VAX minicomputer family—one of the most influential computer architectures of the 1970s and 1980s. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies
Carnegie Mellon University
Electrical Engineering

Graduate Thesis
An Analysis of the Instruction Execution Rate in Certain Computer Structures

Undergraduate Studies
Carnegie Mellon University

SELECTED AWARDS

1987, Member, National Academy of Engineering; 1994, Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery; 1985, W. Wallace McDowell Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; 2018, 2018 Alumni Award, Carnegie Mellon

 

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