Scott J. Shenker

Shenker's work laid the foundation for sharing limited bandwidth among competing network flows. He came up with innovative and far-reaching ideas for implementing guaranteed real-time services, such as voice- and video-streaming and multicasts. He co-authored a highly referenced paper describing a content-addressable network and providing the basic substrate for peer-to-peer computing systems. He became the lead researcher in efforts to redesign the Internet from scratch. He introduced software defined networking, which allows dynamic programmatic control of flows; and software-defined internet architecture, allowing architecture-related decisions to be made within software.