The U.S. Justice Department on Monday nominated a Silicon Valley engineer and entrepreneur to a technical committee that will oversee Microsoft's compliance with its antitrust settlement.
If approved by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Edward Stritter would become the final member of the three-person committee that was created last year as part of the deal that ended the government's courtroom pursuit of Microsoft. A representative for the software titan said the company did not object to Stritter's appointment to the panel.
Stritter's resume describes a career that began in 1968 as a programmer at Bell Labs and led him to Motorola, where he became the chief architect of the legendary
68000 microprocessor used in the original Macintosh.
Stritter became a founder of MIPS Computer of Sunnyvale, Calif.--which developed the first RISC processor and merged with Silicon Graphics in 1992--and went on to be the director of business development for a Cisco Systems wireless unit. Since 2000, he has been an angel investor in early stage start-ups.
View: Full Story
News source: C|Net
