Apple Computer announced Tuesday that Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been elected to Apple's board of directors.
Google's Schmidt is the first person named to Apple's board since Fred Anderson, the former chief financial officer, was elected in 2004, reports MarketWatch. Apple now has eight directors. In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs referred to Schmidt's "insights and experience" at Google. "Apple is one of the companies in the world that I most admire," said Schmidt.
Before joining Google, Schmidt served as chairman and CEO at Novell. Before that, he was CTO at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of Java. Prior to Sun, he was a research staff member at the Computer Science Lab at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Schmidt has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California-Berkeley. He is also a member of Google's board of directors and Princeton University's board of trustees.
