Adam Dunkels

Adam Dunkels, born 28 May 1978, is a Swedish computer scientist, software engineer and entrepreneur, founder of the internet-of-things product development business Thingsquare. His work focuses on computer networking technology and distributed communication for small embedded systems, devices and wireless sensor networks on the internet. He earned his BS, MS in 2001 and PhD in 2007 at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, and is best known as the author of the uIP and lwIP TCP/IP internet protocol stacks; he also invented protothreads and the Contiki operating system. MIT Technology Review placed him on its 2009 TR35 list of the world's top 35 innovators under 35. He founded the Internet Protocol for Smart Objects Alliance and received the 2008 ACM SIGOPS EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award and an ERCIM Cor Baayen award.