Scott Shenker

Scott Joseph Shenker (born January 24, 1956 in Alexandria (Virginia) ) is an American computer scientist . He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a senior scientist at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).

Shenker studied physics at Brown University with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and at the University of Chicago , where he in 1983 Leo Kadanoff received his doctorate ( Scaling Behavior In A Map Of A Circle Onto Itself: Empirical Results ) As a post-graduate student , he was at Cornell University and from 1984 at Xerox PARC . In 1998 he was one of the founders of the ATT Center for Internet Research.

He deals with Internet architecture, software-defined networks, data center infrastructure, large distributed systems, game theory and economic theory. He belongs to the ISI Highly Cited .

Shenker is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery , the IEEE, and the National Academy of Engineering . He received the SIGCOMM Award in 2002, the IEEE Internet Award in 2006 and the Paris Kanellakis Prize in 2017 . In 2016 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2019 a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

He is the brother of the physicist Stephen Shenker .

Fonts

• with RS Xin, J. Rosen, M. Zaharia, M. Franklin, I. Stoica: Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale , EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB / EECS-2012-214, Nov. 2012.
• with J. Feigenbaum: Distributed algorithmic mechanism design: Recent results and future directions , in Proc. 6th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2002, pp. 1-13.
• with S. Ratnasamy, P. Francis, M. Handley, RM Karp: A scalable content-addressable network, in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2001 Conf .: Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications, New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2001, pp. 161-172.
• with R. Braden, D. Clark: Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: An Overview, Internet Engineering Task Force, Technical Report RFC 1633 , June 1994.
• with A. Demers, S. Keshav: Analysis and simulation of a fair queuing algorithm, in Proc. SIGCOMM '89 Symp. On Communications Architectures and Protocols, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1989, pp. 1-12.
• with A. Demers, D. Greene, C. Hauser, W. Irish, J. Larson, H. Sturgis, D. Swinehart, D. Terry: Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance, in Proc. 6th Annual ACM Symp. On Principles of Distributed Computing, FB Schneider, Ed., New York, NY: ACM Press, 1987, pp. 1-12.

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scott Shenker in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .