Background
Schmidt was born March 31, 1944, in San Francisco, California.
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Ronald Schmidt
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He graduated with Bachelor of Surgery (in 1966), Master of Surgery (1968), and Doctor of Philosophy (1970) degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
From 1970 to 1971 he was a postdoctoral research assistant at University College, London. He then joined Bell Laboratories in 1971. He was hired by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center to develop a version of Ethernet for optical fiber in 1980 called Fibernet World War II Schmidt co-founded SynOptics Communications in 1985 with Andrew K. Ludwick.
After its merger in 1994, he served on the Board of Directors of the resulting company Bay Networks starting in May 1996.
Schmidt was executive vice resident and chief technical officer ( Chief Technology Officer) of Bay Networks from 1994 to 1997. In 1998 he became a vice president of the Bell Labs research facility at Silicon Valley.
He left Bell Labs in February 2000. He served on the board of directors of Silicon Image from April 1997 until April 2004.
