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Nick McKeown

Also Known As Nicholas William McKeown
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Nick McKeown (born April 7, 1963) is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, which he joined as an assistant professor in 1995, and a visiting professor at Oxford University, regarded as an influential figure in Internet architecture, high-performance switching and software-defined networking. He co-invented software-defined networking through the Ethane project and the OpenFlow protocol, helping shift computer networking toward software-controlled infrastructure, and in 1997 co-founded Abrizio Inc with Anders Swahn as its chief technology officer, a company acquired by PMC-Sierra in 1999 for stock worth about 400 million dollars. He shared the NEC C&C Award in 2015 with Martin Casado and Scott Shenker for their work on software-defined networking and received the Marconi Prize in 2025 for the same contributions.

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Birth Year
1963 1
Birth Date
1963-04-07 1
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1. Nick McKeown (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Nicholas William McKeown
    Nicholas William McKeown
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Lovelace Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Lovelace Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of ETH Zürich
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of ETH Zürich.
  • Wikidata P166: SIGCOMM Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): SIGCOMM Award.
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1963
    1963
  • P569 (date of birth): 1963-04-07
    1963-04-07
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