Rick Bahr is currently vice president of engineering for Atheros Communications. Atheros is the leading producer of 802.11a, 5GHz WLAN silicon. Prior to joining Atheros, Rick was formerly the vice president of engineering for the high-end server and supercomputer efforts at SGI. In that role, he led engineering in California and the former Cray hardware teams in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Rick was responsible for developing MIPS processors along with the MIPS multiprocessor servers. He also supervised the first deployment of Intel-based Linux servers for SGI. Before joining SGI, Rick was a senior consulting engineer at Apollo/HP. In the past, he has contributed to or led processor implementations at Hewlett-Packard, Prime, and Apollo/HP. |