David Cheriton

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David R. Cheriton
David R. Cheriton

David R. Cheriton is a Canadian-born computer science professor, currently working at Stanford University, who is also a billionaire as a result of his investments in technology companies. He received his Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and 1978, respectively, and spent three years as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia before moving to Stanford.

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Cheriton leads the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University.

One of Cheriton's notable publications, with Dale Skeen, is the paper "Understanding the limits of causally and totally ordered communication", presented at the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in 1993.[1]

Cheriton co-founded Granite Systems with Andy Bechtolsheim, a company developing gigabit Ethernet products, acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996. He was also a co-founder, in 2001, of Bechtolsheim's next startup company, Kealia,[2] which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2004. Cheriton is also credited for setting up Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page with money men at Kleiner Perkins, thus becoming one of the early investors that helped get Google off the ground.

In 2003, Cheriton was presented with the SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement award by the ACM "for his contributions in data networking and systems, and for his keen talent for questioning the assumptions behind all our work." [3]

On November 18, 2005, the University of Waterloo announced that Cheriton had donated $25 million to support graduate studies and research in its School of Computer Science. In recognition of his contribution, the school was renamed the "David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science."

  1. ^ David R. Cheriton and Dale Skeen. "Understanding the limits of causally and totally ordered communication".
  2. ^ CNET News.com. "Cisco's Brain Drain Continues". Retrieved on February 14, 2007.
  3. ^ ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications. "SIGCOMM Awards". Retrieved on February 14, 2007.

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