Jonathan S. Turner

Jonathan Shields Turner is a senior professor of computer science in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, born in Boston on 13 November 1953. His research covers the design and analysis of high performance routers and switching systems, extensible networks built as overlay networks, and the probabilistic performance of heuristic algorithms for NP-complete problems. After a doctorate in computer science from Northwestern University in 1982 he was principal system architect of the Fast Packet Switching project at Bell Labs from 1981 to 1983 and received eleven patents for it. He joined Washington University in 1983, founded its Advanced Networking Group in 1988, co-founded the Applied Research Laboratory, chaired the computer science department, and co-founded Growth Networks, which Cisco acquired in 2000. His 1986 paper New Directions in Communications forecast the convergence of data, voice and video on networks. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1990, an ACM Fellow in 2001 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2007, and retired in 2014.