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Eric Schmidt

Inducted Spring 2008

1955-
Chairman and CEO, Google Inc.
YHS Class of 1972

Joined board of top Internet search-engine firm Google in 2001 and became chairman and CEO; CEO of Novell 1997-2001; chief technology officer Sun Microsystems; after joining Sun in 1983 as a software manager led development of Java; worked for Bell Laboratories, Zilog, and Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; serves on Princeton University Board of Trustees and Apple Inc. Board of Directors; chairman of board of New America Foundation; B.Sc. Princeton 1976 and M.Sc.1979; Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1982.