David Reeves Boggs was an American electrical and radio engineer who developed early prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways, network interface cards and, along with Robert Metcalfe and others, co-invented Ethernet, the most popular family of technologies for local area computer networks.
11 Facts About David Boggs
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David Boggs was born in Washington, DC to James Boggs and Jane Boggs on June 17,1950.
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David Boggs then joined the Xerox PARC research staff, where he met Robert Metcalfe while the latter was debugging an Interface Message Processor interface for the PARC systems group.
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Since Boggs had considerable experience as an amateur radio operator WA3DBJ, he recognized similarities between Metcalfe's theories and radio broadcasting technologies and joined his project.
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David Boggs produced a slide from a Metcalfe sketch of Ethernet terminology for a session at the National Computer Conference in June 1976, which was widely reprinted.
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David Boggs went to Stanford University for graduate study while working at Xerox, earning a master's degree in 1973 and a Ph.
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David Boggs wrote his dissertation on "Internet Broadcasting", a concept which Steve Deering, at Stanford, later expanded upon to IP multicasting.
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David Boggs was one of the developers of the PARC Universal Packet protocol architecture.
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David Boggs worked on the "Titan" project at the Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Laboratory after leaving Xerox.
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David Boggs worked as a consultant in Silicon Valley and co-founded LAN Media Corporation with Ron Crane.
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David Boggs died of heart failure at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, on February 19,2022, at the age of 71.