David Cheriton
David Cheriton
David Ross Cheritonis a Canadian computer scientist, mathematician, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and heads up the Distributed Systems Group. He is a distributed systems and networking expert with keen insight into identifying big market opportunities and building the architectures needed to address these opportunities. He has founded and invested in numerous widely successful technology companies - e.g. Google, where he was amongst the first investors; VMware, where...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth29 March 1951
CountryCanada
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There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus on which is best.The former will simply tell you that 141 of them don't work.
I must admit that I don't really understand social networking models that well, and I haven't tried to because I have just not been enthused about this whole thing.