David Boggs
American electrical engineer (1950–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the co-inventor of Ethernet. For the stock car driver, see David Ray Boggs.
David Reeves Boggs (June 17, 1950 – February 19, 2022) was an American electrical and radio engineer who developed early prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways, network interface cards[1] and, along with Robert Metcalfe and others, co-invented Ethernet, the most popular family of technologies for local area computer networks.[2]
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David Boggs | |
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Born | (1950-06-17)June 17, 1950 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Died | February 19, 2022(2022-02-19) (aged 71) Stanford, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Princeton University (B.S.E.) Stanford University (Ph.D.) |
Known for | Co-invention of Ethernet |
Awards | IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (1988) ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer networking |
Institutions | Xerox PARC |
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