Nick McKeown received his bachelor's degree from the University of Leeds in 1986.
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Nick McKeown moved to the United States in 1989 and earned both his master's degree in 1992 and PhD in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Nick McKeown joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1995 as assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science.
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In 1997, Nick McKeown co-founded Abrizio Inc with Anders Swahn, where he was CTO.
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Nick McKeown was co-founder in 2003 and CEO of Nemo Systems, which Cisco Systems bought for $12.
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Nick McKeown became faculty director of the Clean Slate Program in 2006, and was promoted to full professor at Stanford in 2010.
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Nick McKeown is active in the software-defined networking movement, which he helped start with Scott Shenker and Martin Casado.
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Since 2013, Nick McKeown has promoted the idea that network switches should be programmable rather than fixed.
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Nick McKeown co-founded Barefoot Networks to build and sell PISA switches, to demonstrate that programmable switches can be built at the same power, performance and cost as fixed-function switches.
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Nick McKeown is a Distinguished Alumnus of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.
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In 2012, Nick McKeown received the ACM Sigcomm "Lifetime Achievement" Award "for contributions to the design, analysis, and engineering of high-performance routers, resulting in a major impact on the global Internet".
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Nick McKeown was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2011.
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Vint Cerf and Nick McKeown created two entertaining videos to introduce Cerf at conferences.
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Nick McKeown was an international swimmer and competed for Great Britain in the 1985 World Student Games in Kobe, where he swam 100m breaststroke.
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