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Nick McKeown was born in Bedford, England.
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Nick McKeown gets his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Leeds.
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From 1986 to 1989, he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs, an exploratory research group for Hewlett-Packard Enterprises.
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He moves from England to the United States of America.
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He gets his Master's Degree from the University of California at Berekely.
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He receives his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
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He becomes an assistance teacher of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University.
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He helped design the GSR 12000 router for Cisco Systems.
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He co-founds Abrizio Inc. with Anders Swahn. Abrizio Inc. made switching fabric chip sets. He was the CTO.
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He sells Abrizio Inc. to PMC-Sierra for stock shares worth about $400 million.
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He wins the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Stephen O. Rice prize for a paper that he co-authored with Adisak Mekkittikul, Venkat Anantharam, and Jean Walrand.
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He gets promoted to associate professor at Stanford University.
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He co-founded Nemo Systems with Sundar Iyer. Nemo Systems was a developer of network memory. He was CEO of the company.
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He sells Nemo Systems to Cisco Systems for $12.5 million cash.
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He wins the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society where he gave a lecture on internet routers.
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He becomes the faculty director of the Clean Slate Program, a program that tried to redesign the internet with a clean slate.
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He performed at the 2006 TED Conference where he juggled for 3 minutes while reciting the first 200 digits of Pi.
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He co-found Nicira Networks, a software defined networking company, with Martin Casado and Scott Shenker
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He wins the Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award.
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He wins the Abolition Award for his contributions to the movement to abolish the death penalty.
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He becomes a full professor at Stanford University.
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He founds the Open Networking Foundation with Scott Shenker, aiming to promote networking.
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He wins the ACM Sigcomm life achievement award for designing, analyzing, and engineering high performance routers, which made a huge impact on the global internet.
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VMWare buys Nicira Networks for $1.26 billion.
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Nick Mckeown has led a very successful life. He is known for being one of the pioneers of software defined networking, which is a form of cloud computing that allows efficient network configuration and makes network management easier. He is currently a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE, and the Association for Computer Machinery.
