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Judy Estrin previously co-founded three technology companies with Bill Carrico. Bridge Communications, founded in 1981, was a vendor of internetwork routers and bridges that went public in 1985 and merged with 3Com Corp. in 1987; Estrin served as engineering vice president and executive vice president of Bridge, and later ran the Bridge Communications Division at 3Com. Network Computing Devices, a maker of X terminals and PC-UNIX integration software, was founded in 1988 and went public in 1992; Estrin started with NCD as executive vice president and became CEO in 1993. Estrin served as CEO of Precept Software from the company�s 1995 founding as a maker of streaming video software. When Cisco Systems acquired Precept in 1998, she became Cisco�s chief technology officer until April 2000. Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine�s list of the 50 most powerful women in American business. She sits on the boards of directors of The Walt Disney Company and The Federal Express Corporation. She holds a B.S. degree in math and computer science from UCLA, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. | 