David P. Reed

American computer scientist (born 1952)

David Patrick Reed
David P. Reed
Born	(1952-01-31) January 31, 1952 (age 72)
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	MIT
Known for	TCP/IP UDP Multiversion concurrency control
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Lotus Software MIT Hewlett-Packard Interval Research
Thesis	Processor multiplexing in a layered operating system (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Jerome H. Saltzer

David Patrick Reed (born January 31, 1952) is an American computer scientist, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for a number of significant contributions to computer networking and wireless communications networks.

He was involved in the early development of TCP/IP, and was the designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), though he finds this title "a little embarrassing".^[1] He was also one of the authors of the original paper about the end-to-end principle, End-to-end arguments in system design, published in 1984.^[2]

He is also known for Reed's law, his assertion that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.^[3]

From 2003–2010, Reed was an adjunct professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he co-led the Viral Communications group and the Communication Futures program. He currently serves as a senior vice president of the Chief Scientist Group at SAP Labs.^[4]

He is one of six principal architects of the Croquet project (along with Alan Kay, Julian Lombardi, Andreas Raab, David A. Smith, and Mark McCahill). He is also on the advisory board of TTI/Vanguard.

His 1978 dissertation^[5] introduced multiversion concurrency control (MVCC). MVCC is a concurrency control method commonly used by database management systems to provide concurrent access to the database and in programming languages to implement transactional memory.^[6]

References

^ "udp and me". David P. Reed Blog. Archived from the original on 2018-09-19. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
^ J. H. Saltzer; D. P. Reed; D. D. Clark (1 November 1984). "End-to-end arguments in system design" (PDF). ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 2 (4): 277–288. doi:10.1145/357401.357402. ISSN 0734-2071. S2CID 215746877. Wikidata Q56503280. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
^ "The Law of the Pack," Harvard Business Review (February 2001) pp 23–4.
^ "Reed's Locus". www.deepplum.com. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
^ Reed, David P. (September 21, 1978). "Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System". MIT dissertation. Archived from the original on October 25, 2005. Retrieved May 2, 2007.
^ refs. Clojure. Retrieved on 2013-09-18.

External links

Media related to David P. Reed at Wikimedia Commons
Reed's Locus
Biography
Naming and synchronization in a decentralized computer system (Reed's thesis, 1978)