David Boggs

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David Boggs

Born United States
Residence California, United States
Citizenship United States
Fields Computer networking
Institutions Xerox PARC
Alma mater Princeton University, Stanford University.
Known for Co-invention of Ethernet.
Notable awards IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (1988),[1] ACM Fellowship.

David Reeves Boggs is an electrical and radio engineer from the United States who developed early prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways, network interface cards[2] and, along with Robert Metcalfe, co-invented Ethernet, the most popular family of technologies for local area computer networks.[3]

[edit] Biography

Boggs graduated from Princeton University and received both a master's degree (1973) and a doctorate degree (1982) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.[4] As a young graduate he worked at Xerox PARC, where he met Robert Metcalfe while the latter was debugging an IMP interface for the PARC systems group.[5] Since Boggs had considerable experience as an amateur radio operator, he recognized similarities between Metcalfe's theories and radio broadcasting technologies and joined his project. According to The Economist, "the two would co-invent Ethernet, with Mr Metcalfe generating the ideas and Mr Boggs figuring out how to build the system."[3]

During 1973 they built several Alto-Ethernet interfaces and in 1976, after 18 months in the writing, they published Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks at Communications of the ACM,[6] Ethernet's seminal paper.[5]

After leaving Xerox, Boggs co-founded LAN Media Corporation (LMC) and currently works as a consultant in the Silicon Valley area.[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ IEEE Computer Society. Past recipients for Technical Achievement Award. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
  2. ^ Association for Computing Machinery. ACM Fellows Citation. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
  3. ^ a b The Economist (2003-09-04). Case History: Out of the Ether. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
  4. ^ Stanford University (1999-08-01). Letter to alumni. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
  5. ^ a b IEEE Spectrum (June 1996). Profile: Robert Metcalfe. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
  6. ^ Communications of the ACM - Special 25th Anniversary Issue (January 1983). Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
  7. ^ ESIC Solutions. Members of the team. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
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