Professor
Nicholas W. McKeown
Stanford University
Computer scientist; Electrical engineer; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Computer Sciences
Elected
2015
Influential
expert in the design and analysis of high performance routers.
He is not only the leading scholar in this area, his work has
had enormous commercial impact. His research contributions
include creating the iSLIP scheduling algorithm for routers
which was the heart of Cisco's backbone routers, proving that an
input queued switch can achieve 100% throughput, and that an
input queued switch with a small speedup is equivalent to an
output queued switch. More recently launched the idea of
software defined networking (SDN) with Martin Casado (his PhD
student) and Scott Shenker, and led it to commercial success.
Very active in furthering network education, creating software
(VNS and Mininet) and hardware platforms (NetFPGA) that are used
by thousands of students in 40 countries worldwide to study
networking.
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