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Birth
Nick McKeown was born in Bedford, England. -
Bachelor's Degree
Nick McKeown gets his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Leeds. -
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Hewlett-Packard Labs
From 1986 to 1989, he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs, an exploratory research group for Hewlett-Packard Enterprises. -
New Country
He moves from England to the United States of America. -
Master's Degree
He gets his Master's Degree from the University of California at Berekely. -
PhD
He receives his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. -
Job at Stanford
He becomes an assistance teacher of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University. -
GSR 12000
He helped design the GSR 12000 router for Cisco Systems. -
New Company
He co-founds Abrizio Inc. with Anders Swahn. Abrizio Inc. made switching fabric chip sets. He was the CTO. -
Big Sale
He sells Abrizio Inc. to PMC-Sierra for stock shares worth about $400 million. -
Stephen O. Rice Prize
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. -
Promotion
He gets promoted to associate professor at Stanford University. -
Nemo Systems
He co-founded Nemo Systems with Sundar Iyer. Nemo Systems was a developer of network memory. He was CEO of the company. -
Another Sale
He sells Nemo Systems to Cisco Systems for $12.5 million cash. -
Lovelace Medal
He wins the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society where he gave a lecture on internet routers. -
Clean Slate Program
He becomes the faculty director of the Clean Slate Program, a program that tried to redesign the internet with a clean slate. -
TED Conference
He performed at the 2006 TED Conference where he juggled for 3 minutes while reciting the first 200 digits of Pi. -
Nicira Networks
He co-found Nicira Networks, a software defined networking company, with Martin Casado and Scott Shenker -
Another Award
He wins the Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award. -
And Another Award
He wins the Abolition Award for his contributions to the movement to abolish the death penalty. -
Professor Mckeown
He becomes a full professor at Stanford University. -
Open Networking Foundation
He founds the Open Networking Foundation with Scott Shenker, aiming to promote networking. -
Life Achievement Award
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. -
Contributing To The Economy
VMWare buys Nicira Networks for $1.26 billion. -
Present Day
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.
