Michael David Schroeder is an American computer scientist. His areas of research include computer security, distributed systems, and operating systems, and he is perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Needham–Schroeder protocol. In 2001 he co-founded the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley lab and was the assistant managing director until the lab was disbanded in 2014.
- Occupation
- computer scientist, film director
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1945
- Website
- https://gilbertmunger.org/
