# Rick Rashid

> Rick Rashid is a startup investor. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Rick Rashid is a startup investor. Richard (Rick) F. Rashid is currently in charge of oversight for development of Microsoft Corp.'s interactive TV system and authored a number of patents in areas such as data compression, networking and operating systems. Rashid was promoted to vice president of Microsoft Research in 1994, and then to senior vice president in 2000.Before joining Microsoft in September 1991, Rashid was professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). After becoming a CMU faculty member in September 1979, he directed the design and implementation of several influential network operating systems, and published dozens of papers about computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols and communications security. During his tenure at CMU, Rashid developed the Mach multiprocessor operating system, which has been influential in the design of many modern operating systems and remains at the core of a number of commercial systems.Rashid was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for his work in operating systems and for innovation in industrial research.He also is credited with co-development of one of the earliest networked computer games, "Alto Trek," during the mid-1970s. An updated version of this game has been developed by Microsoft and has been released under the name "Allegiance."Rashid is a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer Directorate Advisory Committee. He is a past member of the DARPA UNIX Steering Committee and the CSNet Executive Committee and a former chairman of the ACM Software System Awards Committee.

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