David D. Clark
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| Born | April 7, 1944 |
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| Field | Computer Science |
| Institution | Internet Architecture Board National Research Council MIT |
| Notable prizes | SIGCOMM Award Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology |
David Dana Clark (b. April 7, 1944) is an American computer scientist. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1966. In 1968, he received his Master's and Engineer's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on the I/O architecture of Multics under Jerry Saltzer. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1973. From 1981 to 1989, he acted as chief protocol architect in the development of the Internet, and chaired the Internet Activities Board, which later became the Internet Architecture Board. He has also served as chairman of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
In 1990 he was awarded the SIGCOMM Award in recognition of his major contributions to Internet protocol and architecture. In 2001 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2001, he was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado.
David Clark is also known for his theory of standards that he calls the apocalypse of the two elephants. The bottom line of this theory is the fact that the time at which a standard is established is absolutely critical to its success.
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- We reject: kings, presidents and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.[1]
[edit] Selected publications
- David D. Clark, "An Input/Output Architecture for Virtual Memory Computer Systems", Ph.D. dissertation, Project MAC Technical Report 117, January 1974
- L.W. McKnight, W. Lehr, D.D. Clark (eds.), Internet Telephony, MIT Press, 2001, ISBN 0-262-13385-7
- D. Clark, "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols", Computer Communications Review 18:4, August 1988, pp. 106–114
- R. Braden, D.D. Clark, S. Shenker, and J. Wroclawski, "Developing a Next-Generation Internet Architecture", ISI white paper, 2000
- D.D. Clark, K. Sollins, J. Wroclawski, R. Braden, "Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet", Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2002, ACM Press, 2002
- D.D. Clark, K. Sollins, J. Wroclawski, T. Faber, "Addressing Reality: An Architectural Response to Real-World Demands on the Evolving Internet", ACM SIGGCOMM 2003 Workshops, Karlsruhe, August 2003
[edit] Notes
- ^ A Cloudy Crystal Ball -- Visions of the Future (PDF) (1992-07-16). Retrieved on February 2, 2007. (Presentation given at the 24th Internet Engineering Task Force.)
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