David Dana Clark is an American
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. He graduated from
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in 1966. In 1968, he received his
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and
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degrees in
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from the
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, where he worked on the
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architecture of
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under
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. He received his
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in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1973. From 1981 to 1989, he acted as chief protocol architect in the development of the
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, and chaired the Internet Activities Board, which later became the
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. He has also served as chairman of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the
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. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
.
In 1990 he was awarded the
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in recognition of his major contributions to Internet protocol and architecture. Clark received in 1998 the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. In 2001 he was inducted as a Fellow of the
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. In 2001, he was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado.
Quote
- We reject: kings, presidents and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
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
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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
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, August 2003
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