Columbia, which will go to fund the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI). He more recently donated $7.5M to fund a new chair in computing, and a new course on computational thinking. Cheriton has also funded two graduate student fellowships and one undergrad fellowship at Stanford, and donated several millions of dollars to Stanford to fund research. He campaigned against Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) that was favored by telephone carriers, preferring Ethernet, which he saw as a simpler, proven option. Ethernet gradually superseded alternatives. Personal life In 1980, Cheriton married Iris Fraser. They had four children and divorced in 1994. According to public record, Cheriton made a total of over $5,000 donations to the presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2019. See also List of University of Waterloo people References External links Stanford University Distributed Systems Group Founder of Intent Based Networking Company Apstra David Cheriton speaks at the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) Great Debate 1951 births Living people Businesspeople from Vancouver Canadian billionaires Canadian computer businesspeople Canadian computer scientists Canadian expatriate academics in the United States Canadian mathematicians Canadian technology chief executives Canadian technology company founders Canadian venture capitalists Scientists from Vancouver Stanford University School of Engineering faculty University of British Columbia Faculty of Science alumni University of British Columbia faculty University of Waterloo alumni