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David Cheriton

January 01, 1970

David Ross Cheriton (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University,[1][2] where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group.[3]

David Cheriton
Born
David Ross Cheriton

(1951-03-29) March 29, 1951 (age 73)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
EducationB.S., University of British Columbia (1973)
M.S., University of Waterloo (1974)
Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1978)
SpouseIris Fraser (divorced)
Children4
AwardsSIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Mathematics
Business
Philanthropy
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Stanford University
Granite Systems
Kealia
Arista Networks
Websiteprofiles.stanford.edu/david-cheriton

He is a distributed computing and computer networking expert, with insight into identifying big market opportunities and building the architectures needed to address such opportunities. He has founded and invested in technology companies, including Google, where he was among the first angel investors;[4] VMware, where he was an early investor;[5] and Arista, where he was cofounder and chief scientist. He has funded at least 20 companies.[6]

Cheriton was ranked by Forbes with an estimated net worth of US$8.8 billion, as of April 2021.[7] He has made contributions to education, with a $25 million donation to support graduate studies and research in the School of Computer Science (subsequently renamed David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) at the University of Waterloo,[8] a $7.5 million donation to the University of British Columbia,[9] and a $12 million endowment in 2016 to Stanford University to support Computer Science faculty, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate scholarships.[10]

Education edit

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Cheriton attended public schools in the Highlands neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[11]

He briefly attended the University of Alberta where he had applied for both mathematics and music. He was rejected by the music program, and then went on to study mathematics and received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree from the University of British Columbia in 1973.[12]

Cheriton received his Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and 1978, respectively. He spent three years as an assistant professor at his alma mater, the University of British Columbia, before moving to Stanford.[13][14]

Research edit

Cheriton was involved in creating three microkernel operating systems (OSes). He was one of the early principal developers of Thoth, a real-time operating system, and then the Verex kernel. He then founded and led the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University, which developed a microkernel OS named V. He has published profusely in the areas of distributed computing and computer networking.[1] He won the prestigious SIGCOMM award in 2003, in recognition for his lifetime contribution to the field of telecommunications networks.[15] Cheriton was the mentor and advisor of students such as: Sergey Brin and Larry Page (founders of Google), Kenneth Duda[3] (founder of Arista Networks), Hugh Holbrook[3] (VP Software Engineering at Arista Networks), Sandeep Singhal[3] (was GM at Microsoft, now at Google), and Kieran Harty[16] (CTO and founder of Tintri).

As of 2016, Cheriton is working with Stanford students on transactional memory, making memory systems that are resilient to failures.

In-memory processing leads to dramatically faster computers – in some cases speeding up applications by a factor of 100,000. It changes the complete nature of how a business can run. We’re trying to lower the cost and to fit these systems in existing memory structures and reduce the number of components to make them more reliable and more secure.

— David R. Cheriton; 2016 interview[10]

Industry edit

Cheriton cofounded Granite Systems with Andy Bechtolsheim. The company developed gigabit Ethernet products. It was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996.[17]

In August 1998, Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page met Bechtolsheim on Cheriton's front porch. At the meeting, Bechtolsheim wrote the first cheque to fund their company, Google, and Cheriton joined him as an angel investor with a $200,000 investment.[4]

Cheriton was also an early investor in compute virtualization leader VMware,[18] which was later acquired for $625M by EMC in 2004. VMware had a successful public offering in 2007.

In 2001 Cheriton and Bechtolsheim founded another start-up company, Palo Alto based Kealia. Kealia designed a high-capacity streaming video server;[19] Galaxy, a range of servers based on AMD's Opteron microprocessor; and Thumper, an enterprise-grade network attached storage system.[17] Kealia was bought by Sun Microsystems in 2004, with Thumper becoming the Sun Fire X4500.[17][20]

In 2004, Cheriton cofounded (again with Bechtolsheim) and was chief scientist of Arista Networks, where he worked on the foundations of the Extensible Operating System (EOS).[21] Arista had a successful public offering in 2014.[22]

Cheriton is an investor in and advisory board member for frontline data warehouse company Aster Data Systems,[23] which was acquired by Teradata in 2011 for $263M.[24]

Cheriton is also one of the earliest investors in Tintri, a storage virtualization company founded by his student Kieran Harty.[16] Cheriton was also an early investor in in-video advertising company Zunavision,[25] and he founded OptumSoft.[26]

In 2014, Cheriton cofounded and invested in Apstra, Inc.[27] In 2015, he cofounded and invested in BrainofT, Inc. (Caspar).[28]

He currently serves as the Chief Data Center Scientist at Juniper Networks.[29]

Lifestyle edit

Although the Google investment alone would be worth over US$1 billion, Cheriton has a reputation for a frugal lifestyle, avoiding costly cars or large houses. He was once included in a list of "cheapskate billionaires".[30]

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.[8] In 2009, he donated $2 million to the University of British Columbia, which will go to fund the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI). He more recently donated $7.5M to fund a new chair in computing, and a new course on computational thinking.[9]

Cheriton has also funded two graduate student fellowships and one undergrad fellowship at Stanford,[31] and donated several millions of dollars to Stanford to fund research.[10]

He campaigned against Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) that was favored by telephone carriers, preferring Ethernet, which he saw as a simpler, proven option. Ethernet gradually superseded alternatives.[6]

Personal life edit

In 1980, Cheriton married Iris Fraser. They had four children and divorced in 1994.[32][33]

According to public record, Cheriton has made donations to Republican causes including the party, candidate PACs, senators, and made a total of over $5,000 donations to the presidential candidate Donald Trump.[34]

See also edit

References edit

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  2. ^ "David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship". Cheriton School of Computer Science. 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
  3. ^ a b c d . gregorio.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  4. ^ a b Jolis, Jacob (16 April 2010). "Frugal after Google". Stanford Daily. from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  5. ^ "The Midas List: #4 David Cheriton". Forbes. from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  6. ^ a b Clark, Don (2016-03-30). "The Billionaire Professor Behind New Networking Startup Apstra". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. from the original on 2016-05-07. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
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  8. ^ a b Post, National. . Canada.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  9. ^ a b "Founding Google investor Cheriton donates $7.5 million to UBC computer science". UBC News. 14 November 2014. from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  10. ^ a b c Myers, Andrew (2016-05-02). "David Cheriton: "The goal is to get students to think like experts"". engineering.stanford.edu. from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
  11. ^ . The Edmonton Journal. April 3, 2006. Archived from the original on April 29, 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  12. ^ Naslund, Eric (15 January 2010). (PDF). math.ubc.ca. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  13. ^ "David Cheriton". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  14. ^ Mac, Ryan. "Professor Billionaire: The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  15. ^ "SIGCOMM Award Recipients". ACM SIGCOMM. from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  16. ^ a b . insights.wired.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  17. ^ a b c CNET News.com. "Cisco's Brain Drain Continues (12DEC2003)". from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
  18. ^ "Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire". Bloomberg. March 2012. from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  19. ^ . Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
  20. ^ "Bechtolsheim: The server is not the network". The Register. 14 September 2009. from the original on 10 August 2017.
  21. ^ "Professor Billionaire: The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check". Forbes. from the original on 2016-02-07. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  22. ^ "Soaring after IPO, Arista Networks becomes one of Silicon Valley's most valuable networking companies". www.mercurynews.com. 6 June 2014. from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  23. ^ . Archived from the original on October 4, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  24. ^ Schonfeld, Erick (3 March 2011). "Big Pay Day For Big Data. Teradata Buys Aster Data For $263 Million". TechCrunch. from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  25. ^ Robin Wauters (February 18, 2009). "ZunaVision Is Trying To Monetize Online Video By Making It Unwatchable". TechCrunch. from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  26. ^ "About". OptumSoft website. 2008. from the original on March 9, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  27. ^ "Apstra". Apstra. from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  28. ^ "Caspar.AI". Caspar.AI. from the original on 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  29. ^ "David Cheriton - Chief Data Center Scientist at Juniper Networks". THE ORG. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  30. ^ Lubin, Gus; Jedrzejczak, Antonina (April 5, 2010). "10 Cheapskate Billionaires Who Live Like Paupers". Business Insider. from the original on June 24, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  31. ^ "Named SGF Fellowships". Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education. Stanford University. from the original on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  32. ^ "Possessions make Silicon Valley divorces messy". The Berkeley Daily Planet. September 11, 2000. from the original on 2015-04-02.
  33. ^ Harper, Will (October 7, 1999). "For Better Or for Worth: How splitting couples in Silicon Valley are carving out new territory in divorce court". Metro. San Jose: Metro Newspapers. from the original on 2015-03-07.
  34. ^ "David Cheriton, Political Donations - ALL". opensecrets.org. Retrieved 31 October 2020.

External links edit

  • Official website
  • Founder of Intent Based Networking Company Apstra
  • David Cheriton speaks at the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) Great Debate

January 01, 1970
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David Ross Cheriton born March 29 1951 is a Canadian computer scientist businessman philanthropist and venture capitalist He is a computer science professor at Stanford University 1 2 where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group 3 David CheritonBornDavid Ross Cheriton 1951 03 29 March 29 1951 age 73 Vancouver British Columbia CanadaEducationB S University of British Columbia 1973 M S University of Waterloo 1974 Ph D University of Waterloo 1978 SpouseIris Fraser divorced Children4AwardsSIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award 2003Scientific careerFieldsComputer scienceMathematicsBusinessPhilanthropyInstitutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaStanford UniversityGranite SystemsKealiaArista NetworksWebsiteprofiles wbr stanford wbr edu wbr david cheriton He is a distributed computing and computer networking expert with insight into identifying big market opportunities and building the architectures needed to address such opportunities He has founded and invested in technology companies including Google where he was among the first angel investors 4 VMware where he was an early investor 5 and Arista where he was cofounder and chief scientist He has funded at least 20 companies 6 Cheriton was ranked by Forbes with an estimated net worth of US 8 8 billion as of April 2021 7 He has made contributions to education with a 25 million donation to support graduate studies and research in the School of Computer Science subsequently renamed David R Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo 8 a 7 5 million donation to the University of British Columbia 9 and a 12 million endowment in 2016 to Stanford University to support Computer Science faculty graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships 10 Contents 1 Education 2 Research 3 Industry 4 Lifestyle 5 Personal life 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksEducation editBorn in Vancouver British Columbia Canada Cheriton attended public schools in the Highlands neighborhood of Edmonton Alberta Canada 11 He briefly attended the University of Alberta where he had applied for both mathematics and music He was rejected by the music program and then went on to study mathematics and received his Bachelor of Science B S degree from the University of British Columbia in 1973 12 Cheriton received his Master of Science M S and Doctor of Philosophy Ph D degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and 1978 respectively He spent three years as an assistant professor at his alma mater the University of British Columbia before moving to Stanford 13 14 Research editCheriton was involved in creating three microkernel operating systems OSes He was one of the early principal developers of Thoth a real time operating system and then the Verex kernel He then founded and led the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University which developed a microkernel OS named V He has published profusely in the areas of distributed computing and computer networking 1 He won the prestigious SIGCOMM award in 2003 in recognition for his lifetime contribution to the field of telecommunications networks 15 Cheriton was the mentor and advisor of students such as Sergey Brin and Larry Page founders of Google Kenneth Duda 3 founder of Arista Networks Hugh Holbrook 3 VP Software Engineering at Arista Networks Sandeep Singhal 3 was GM at Microsoft now at Google and Kieran Harty 16 CTO and founder of Tintri As of 2016 Cheriton is working with Stanford students on transactional memory making memory systems that are resilient to failures In memory processing leads to dramatically faster computers in some cases speeding up applications by a factor of 100 000 It changes the complete nature of how a business can run We re trying to lower the cost and to fit these systems in existing memory structures and reduce the number of components to make them more reliable and more secure David R Cheriton 2016 interview 10 Industry editCheriton cofounded Granite Systems with Andy Bechtolsheim The company developed gigabit Ethernet products It was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996 17 In August 1998 Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page met Bechtolsheim on Cheriton s front porch At the meeting Bechtolsheim wrote the first cheque to fund their company Google and Cheriton joined him as an angel investor with a 200 000 investment 4 Cheriton was also an early investor in compute virtualization leader VMware 18 which was later acquired for 625M by EMC in 2004 VMware had a successful public offering in 2007 In 2001 Cheriton and Bechtolsheim founded another start up company Palo Alto based Kealia Kealia designed a high capacity streaming video server 19 Galaxy a range of servers based on AMD s Opteron microprocessor and Thumper an enterprise grade network attached storage system 17 Kealia was bought by Sun Microsystems in 2004 with Thumper becoming the Sun Fire X4500 17 20 In 2004 Cheriton cofounded again with Bechtolsheim and was chief scientist of Arista Networks where he worked on the foundations of the Extensible Operating System EOS 21 Arista had a successful public offering in 2014 22 Cheriton is an investor in and advisory board member for frontline data warehouse company Aster Data Systems 23 which was acquired by Teradata in 2011 for 263M 24 Cheriton is also one of the earliest investors in Tintri a storage virtualization company founded by his student Kieran Harty 16 Cheriton was also an early investor in in video advertising company Zunavision 25 and he founded OptumSoft 26 In 2014 Cheriton cofounded and invested in Apstra Inc 27 In 2015 he cofounded and invested in BrainofT Inc Caspar 28 He currently serves as the Chief Data Center Scientist at Juniper Networks 29 Lifestyle editAlthough the Google investment alone would be worth over US 1 billion Cheriton has a reputation for a frugal lifestyle avoiding costly cars or large houses He was once included in a list of cheapskate billionaires 30 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 8 In 2009 he donated 2 million to the University of British Columbia which will go to fund the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative CWSEI He more recently donated 7 5M to fund a new chair in computing and a new course on computational thinking 9 Cheriton has also funded two graduate student fellowships and one undergrad fellowship at Stanford 31 and donated several millions of dollars to Stanford to fund research 10 He campaigned against Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM that was favored by telephone carriers preferring Ethernet which he saw as a simpler proven option Ethernet gradually superseded alternatives 6 Personal life editIn 1980 Cheriton married Iris Fraser They had four children and divorced in 1994 32 33 According to public record Cheriton has made donations to Republican causes including the party candidate PACs senators and made a total of over 5 000 donations to the presidential candidate Donald Trump 34 See also editList of University of Waterloo peopleReferences edit a b David Cheriton profile stanford edu Archived from the original on 2016 02 05 Retrieved 2020 10 28 David R Cheriton Graduate Scholarship Cheriton School of Computer Science 2017 02 16 Retrieved 2024 02 16 a b c d Distributed Systems Group gregorio stanford edu Archived from the original on 2016 03 04 Retrieved 2016 02 05 a b Jolis Jacob 16 April 2010 Frugal after Google Stanford Daily Archived from the original on 2016 03 03 Retrieved 2016 02 05 The Midas List 4 David Cheriton Forbes Archived from the original on 2016 03 06 Retrieved 2016 02 05 a b Clark Don 2016 03 30 The Billionaire Professor Behind New Networking Startup Apstra Wall Street Journal ISSN 0099 9660 Archived from the original on 2016 05 07 Retrieved 2016 05 12 David Cheriton Forbes Archived from the original on 2016 02 20 Retrieved 2016 02 05 a b Post National University of Waterloo gets 25M Google dividend Canada com Archived from the original on 2016 02 23 Retrieved 2016 02 05 a b Founding Google investor Cheriton donates 7 5 million to UBC computer science UBC News 14 November 2014 Archived from the original on 2016 02 05 Retrieved 2016 02 05 a b c Myers Andrew 2016 05 02 David Cheriton The goal is to get students to think like experts engineering stanford edu Archived from the original on 2016 06 11 Retrieved 2017 04 18 Just an ordinary hometow billionaire Edmonton s wealthiest son is hardly a household name and the Google billionaire couldn t care less The Edmonton Journal April 3 2006 Archived from the original on April 29 2012 Retrieved June 25 2011 Naslund Eric 15 January 2010 Interview with alumnus David Cheriton PDF math ubc ca Archived from the original PDF on 2 April 2015 Retrieved 8 September 2012 David Cheriton Forbes Retrieved 2020 03 22 Mac Ryan Professor Billionaire The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check Forbes Retrieved 2020 03 22 SIGCOMM Award Recipients ACM SIGCOMM Archived from the original on 2016 03 03 Retrieved 2016 02 05 a b Home is Where the Talent and VCs Are Silicon Valley Still Unparalleled as Tech Hotbed insights wired com Archived from the original on 2016 02 05 Retrieved 2016 02 05 a b c CNET News com Cisco s Brain Drain Continues 12DEC2003 Archived from the original on 2014 07 14 Retrieved 2007 02 14 Silicon Valley s Humble Billionaire Bloomberg March 2012 Archived from the original on 2016 02 05 Retrieved 2016 02 05 Sun s X64 Based Streaming Server Runs on Linux Archived from the original on 2016 03 04 Retrieved 2015 11 19 Bechtolsheim The server is not the network The Register 14 September 2009 Archived from the original on 10 August 2017 Professor Billionaire The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check Forbes Archived from the original on 2016 02 07 Retrieved 2016 02 05 Soaring after IPO Arista Networks becomes one of Silicon Valley s most valuable networking companies www mercurynews com 6 June 2014 Archived from the original on 2016 03 05 Retrieved 2016 02 05 Advisory Board Archived from the original on October 4 2011 Retrieved June 25 2011 Schonfeld Erick 3 March 2011 Big Pay Day For Big Data Teradata Buys Aster Data For 263 Million TechCrunch Archived from the original on 2016 02 03 Retrieved 2016 02 05 Robin Wauters February 18 2009 ZunaVision Is Trying To Monetize Online Video By Making It Unwatchable TechCrunch Archived from the original on September 17 2012 Retrieved October 4 2012 About OptumSoft website 2008 Archived from the original on March 9 2015 Retrieved June 25 2011 Apstra Apstra Archived from the original on 2016 03 09 Retrieved 2020 10 28 Caspar AI Caspar AI Archived from the original on 2017 10 25 Retrieved 2020 10 28 David Cheriton Chief Data Center Scientist at Juniper Networks THE ORG Retrieved 2023 08 28 Lubin Gus Jedrzejczak Antonina April 5 2010 10 Cheapskate Billionaires Who Live Like Paupers Business Insider Archived from the original on June 24 2011 Retrieved June 25 2011 Named SGF Fellowships Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education Stanford University Archived from the original on 2016 03 11 Retrieved 2016 02 05 Possessions make Silicon Valley divorces messy The Berkeley Daily Planet September 11 2000 Archived from the original on 2015 04 02 Harper Will October 7 1999 For Better Or for Worth How splitting couples in Silicon Valley are carving out new territory in divorce court Metro San Jose Metro Newspapers Archived from the original on 2015 03 07 David Cheriton Political Donations ALL opensecrets org Retrieved 31 October 2020 External links editOfficial website Stanford University Distributed Systems Group Founder of Intent Based Networking Company Apstra David Cheriton speaks at the Open Networking User Group ONUG Great Debate Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title David Cheriton amp 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