David Cheriton
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David R. Cheriton is a Canadian billionaire and current professor at Stanford University. 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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[edit] Research
Cheriton leads the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University.
[edit] Industry Work
Cheriton co-founded Granite Systems with Andy Bechtolsheim, a company developing gigabit Ethernet products, acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996. He is also co-founder of Kealia, 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.
[edit] Awards and Honours
In 2003, Cheriton was presented with the SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement award by the ACM.
[edit] Gift to the University of Waterloo
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."
