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David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:46:09 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Rod Van Meter <rdv () tera ics keio ac jp> Date: September 26, 2006 10:49:52 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science Reply-To: rdv () tera ics keio ac jp Hi Dave, For IP, if you wish... I know the name David Cheriton for his seminal work in distributed systems in the 1980s, including the V system he led the development of as a Stanford professor. (I've always been particularly fond of the "triangle RPCs" in VMTP, allowing the reply to an RPC to arrive from a node different from the one that the request was sent to. We gave serious consideration to using that model in the Netstation work in the mid-90s.) Others no doubt know his name as a venture capitalist; he made a gazillion (a google?) bucks backing a little startup named Google almost a decade ago. Now his name will be known to many because of his gift of $25 million to the University of Waterloo, where the CS department now becomes the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.Congratulations to UW, and thanks, David, for giving back! Without strong
universities, we have no future. http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/news/2006/cheriton --Rod Rod Van Meter, quantum computer architect rdv () tera ics keio ac jp, rdv () alumni caltech edu http://rdvlivefromtokyo.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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