Stephen Deering is a former Fellow at Cisco Systems, where he worked on the development and standardization of architectural enhancements to the Internet Protocol.
Prior to joining Cisco in 1996, he spent six years at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, engaged in research on advanced Internet technologies, including multicast routing, mobile internetworking, scalable addressing, and support for multimedia applications over the Internet.
[citation needed] Deering is the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Internet Award for his work in IP multicast and IPv6.
[4] He was declared the 1994 "Geek of the Year" by Internet Talk Radio.
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