Charlie Bass (engineer)
Charles "Charlie" Bass,[2] is an American electrical engineer, academician and entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of the networking company Ungermann-Bass in 1979. Led by Ralph Ungermann and staffed by several colleagues from Zilog,[3] Ungermann-Bass helped commercialize ethernet, had a successful IPO, and then was purchased by Tandem Computers.
Charlie Bass | |
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Born | 1941 |
Education | M.D., University of Miami PhD, University of Hawaiʻi |
Known for | Foundation of Ungermann-Bass |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering Microprocessors Computer networking |
Institutions | University of Berkeley (1972-1975) Zilog (1974-1978) Ungermann-Bass (1979-1985, 1986-1987) Bass Ventures(1989)[1] |
Bass was also co-founder of Starlight Networks[4] in late 1990, a software company involved in streaming media and Socket Mobile, Inc.[5] in 1992.
In 1972, Bass received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii. He has taught at University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Stanford University, and he worked for Zilog. In 1989, he formed his own venture capital company, Bass Associates. Bass is currently an advisor to Horizon Ventures.[6]
References
University of Hawaii COE Distinguished Lecture Series Charlie Bass: How To Maneuver Venture Capital
- "Charlie Bass | History of Computer Communications".
- Forbes-Charlie Bass
- Founding of UB Archived August 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- Starlight Networks
- "Socket Mobile". Archived from the original on 2011-03-19. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
- Horizon Ventures Archived March 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine