William F. Miller

William F. Miller

Miller is the Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management Emeritus, Graduate School of Business; Professor of Computer Science Emeritus, School of Engineering; and Senior Fellow Emeritus, Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the former Vice President for Research, and Vice President and Provost at Stanford University. He received his B.S., M.S., Ph.D. and D.Sc. honoris causa from Purdue University.

Miller serves as Chairman of the Board of the Borland Software Corporation. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of SRI International, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SRI Development Co, and former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the David Sarnoff Research Center (now the Sarnoff Corporation). He served as a member of the California Council on Science and Technology from 1995-2001. Dr. Miller is an authority on the international business strategic use of new technologies and public policy.

His honors include life membership in the National Academy of Engineering; Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; the Sarnoff Founder’s Medal, 1997; the David Packard Civic Entrepreneur Award (team award), 1998; and the Robert K. Jaedicke Silver Apple Award, Stanford Business School Alumni, 1998, the DongBaeg Medal, the Order of Civil Merit, the Republic of Korea, 2000, the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, 2001, and the Okawa Prize from the Okawa Foundation, 2001.