Scott Shenker

Scott Shenker is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley.[1] He is also the head of the Networking Group and the Vice President of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. He received his Sc.B. in Physics from Brown University in 1978, and his PhD in Physics from University of Chicago in 1983.[2] He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE. He is brother of string theorist Stephen Shenker.

In 2002, Scott Shenker received the SIGCOMM Award[3] in recognition of his "contributions to Internet design and architecture, to fostering research collaboration, and as a role model for commitment and intellectual rigor in networking research".

In 2006, he received the IEEE Internet Award[4] "For contributions towards an understanding of resource sharing on the Internet." In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate[5] from the University of Chicago "for his significant contributions to the architecture of the Internet."

References

  1. ^ "Scott Shenker's Berkeley Homepage". http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/shenker.html. Retrieved 2009-07-21. 
  2. ^ "Scott Shenker's Biography at ICSI". http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/Board/shenkerbio.html. Retrieved 2009-07-21. 
  3. ^ "SIGCOMM Award Recipients". ACM SIGCOMM. http://www.sigcomm.org/about/awards/sigcomm-awards/. Retrieved 2009-07-21. 
  4. ^ "IEEE Internet Award Recipients". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/internet.html. Retrieved 2009-07-21. 
  5. ^ "Five honorary doctorates of science to be given at Convocation Session II". The University of Chicago. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070607/honorarydegrees.shtml. Retrieved 2011-07-09.