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Scott Shenker · Technology & Engineering

What

Architect of internet resource sharing and software-defined networking; Kanellakis Award (2017)

When

1956

Where

United States

Prizes and awards
Biography

Scott Shenker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Architect of internet resource sharing and software-defined networking; Kanellakis Award (2017)

How & why

Scott Shenker is an American computer scientist at UC Berkeley whose research shaped Internet architecture, resource sharing and, notably, software-defined networking; he co-founded Nicira and the Open Networking Foundation. He received the 2017 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for foundational contributions to networking. He is identified as Jewish in Jewish biographical references.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Architect of internet resource sharing and software-defined networking; Kanellakis Award (2017)

2017

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award