Forest Baskett

Forest Baskett
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
OccupationVenture capitalist at New Enterprise Associates
Known forCray-1
Very Large Scale Integration
BCMP network
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsStanford University

Forest Baskett (born May 11, 1943) is an American venture capitalist, computer scientist and former professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.

He is a venture capitalist at New Enterprise Associates. Baskett designed the operating system for the original Cray-1 supercomputer, was an original pioneer of Very Large Scale Integration, and co-introduced the eponymous BCMP networks.