September 7, 2006 Source: :
http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=4768 Computer scientist and entrepreneur David Cheriton visits UW WATERLOO, Ont. (Sept. 7, 2006) -- Computer scientist and entrepreneur David Cheriton will be at the University of Waterloo Friday to hear some of the thanks that he couldn't listen to in person when UW's school of computer science was named in his honour last year. He was unable to be in Waterloo last November for the announcement of his $25 million gift to UW and the resulting naming of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. But tomorrow, Cheriton will attend a celebration event and speak at an academic symposium. Date: Friday, Sept. 8, 2006 Time: 11:30 a.m. Location: William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, great hall, University of Waterloo Cheriton, a UW graduate, is a computer science professor at Stanford University and leading venture capitalist in high-tech companies. After earning his graduate degrees from UW, he spent three years at the University of British Columbia, then began his career at Stanford, where he heads the Distributed Systems Group. His gift to Waterloo led to the establishment of the David R. Cheriton Endowment for Excellence in Computer Science to fund research chairs, faculty fellowships and graduate scholarships. Cheriton is widely known for research in high-performance scalable systems, Internet architecture and hardware-software interaction, as well as the successful commercialization of his research results. His current interests include distributed systems, next-generation Internet architecture, operating systems and object-oriented design techniques. He received a SigComm Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 2003. Besides his achievements in research, Cheriton has been involved in a number of startup companies as co-founder and as investor. As well, he has been a technical adviser to Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Google, VMware and Tibco. He was named one of Forbes magazine's Top Ten Venture Capitalists (2005) based on his seed investment in Google. Three years ago he received a Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal from UW. The public celebration event on Friday begins at 11:30 a.m. in the great hall of the Davis centre, followed by a light lunch. At 1:30 p.m., the 2006 Inaugural Cheriton Research Symposium will be held in Davis Centre, room 1302. Five speakers from the computer science school -- Ashraf Aboulnaga, Peter Forsyth, Srinivasan Keshav, Pascal Poupart and Ian Munro -- along with Cheriton will give research presentations.
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