Richard Rashid

Richard 'Rick' Rashid oversees Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. Previously, he was the director of Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft Research in 1991, and was promoted to vice president in 1994. In 2000, he became senior vice president. He has authored a number of patents in areas such as, , and s, and was a major developer of Microsoft's system.

Rashid graduated from in 1974 with degrees in  and. He then received a and a  in  from the, finishing in 1980. While at Rochester, he wrote what is probably one of the earliest networked multiplayer computer games, , for computers.

In 1979, he became a of  at. While a faculty member, he performed research and published numerous papers and articles on topics such as networking, operating systems,, and s for applications. His most notable work was on the.

In 2003, he was inducted into the.