Len Shustek

Len Shustek is a high-tech entrepreneur who co-founded the Computer History
Museum in Mountain View, California ( www.computerhistory.org ), the premier institution dedicated to preserving and presenting the artifacts and stories of the Information Age. He was its Chairman for 25 years. Len's educational background is in Computer Science (MS and PhD from Stanford University) by way of Physics (BS and MS from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering). He was a Research Associate at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and then an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
 

In 1979, he co-founded Nestar Systems, an early manufacturer of networked
computer systems for personal computers. In 1986, he co-founded Network General, a manufacturer of computer network analysis tools, notably "The Sniffer." He then co-founded the seed-round venture capital firm VenCraft. In semi-retirement, Len has taught computer architecture and computer history as a Consulting Professor at Stanford. He has served on the boards of several high-tech startups and non-profit organizations, including ten years on the board of Brooklyn Poly before the merger with NYU. His current project is to construct a version of the world’s first computer: the never-built Analytical Engine designed by Charles Babbage in 1840.