David Boggs
David Boggs | |
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| Born | June 17, 1950 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | February 19, 2022 (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 |
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 and, along with Robert Metcalfe and others, co-invented Ethernet, the most popular family of technologies for local area computer networks.