David Ross Cheriton was born on March 29,1951 and is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist.
24 Facts About David Cheriton
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David Cheriton is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group.
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David Cheriton is a distributed computing and computer networking expert, with insight into identifying big market opportunities and building the architectures needed to address such opportunities.
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David Cheriton has founded and invested in technology companies, including Google, where he was among the first angel investors; VMware, where he was an early investor; and Arista, where he was cofounder and chief scientist.
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David Cheriton has made contributions to education, with a $25 million donation to support graduate studies and research in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, a $7.5 million donation to the University of British Columbia, and a $12 million endowment in 2016 to Stanford University to support Computer Science faculty, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate scholarships.
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David Cheriton briefly attended the University of Alberta where he had applied for both mathematics and music.
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David Cheriton spent three years as an assistant professor at his alma mater, the University of British Columbia, before moving to Stanford.
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David Cheriton was involved in creating three microkernel operating systems.
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David Cheriton was one of the early principal developers of Thoth, a real-time operating system, and then the Verex kernel.
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David Cheriton then founded and led the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University, which developed a microkernel OS named V David Cheriton has published profusely in the areas of distributed computing and computer networking.
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David Cheriton won the prestigious SIGCOMM award in 2003, in recognition for his lifetime contribution to the field of telecommunications networks.
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David Cheriton was the mentor and advisor of students such as: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Kenneth Duda, Hugh Holbrook, Sandeep Singhal, and Kieran Harty.
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At the meeting, Bechtolsheim wrote the first cheque to fund their company, Google, and David Cheriton joined him as an angel investor with a $200,000 investment.
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David Cheriton was an early investor in compute virtualization leader VMware, which was later acquired for $625M by EMC in 2004.
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In 2004, David Cheriton cofounded and was chief scientist of Arista Networks, where he worked on the foundations of the Extensible Operating System.
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David Cheriton is an investor in and advisory board member for frontline data warehouse company Aster Data Systems, which was acquired by Teradata in 2011 for $263M.
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David Cheriton is one of the earliest investors in Tintri, a storage virtualization company founded by his student Kieran Harty.
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David Cheriton was an early investor in in-video advertising company Zunavision, and he founded OptumSoft.
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In 2014, David Cheriton cofounded and invested in Apstra, Inc In 2015, he cofounded and invested in BrainofT, Inc.
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David Cheriton currently serves as the Chief Data Center Scientist at Juniper Networks.
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David Cheriton was once included in a list of "cheapskate billionaires".
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On November 18,2005, the University of Waterloo announced that David Cheriton had donated $25 million to support graduate studies and research in its School of Computer Science.
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David Cheriton has funded two graduate student fellowships and one undergrad fellowship at Stanford, and donated several millions of dollars to Stanford to fund research.
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David Cheriton campaigned against Asynchronous Transfer Mode that was favored by telephone carriers, preferring Ethernet, which he saw as a simpler, proven option.