Editing David P. Reed

{{short description|American computer scientist (born 1952)}}
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| birth_date              = {{birth date and age|1952|1|31}}
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| citizenship             = [[United States]]
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| field                   = [[Computer Science]]
| work_institution        = [[Lotus Software]]<br />[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]<br />[[Hewlett-Packard]]<br />[[Interval Research]]
| alma_mater              = [[MIT]]
| doctoral_advisor        = [[Jerome H. Saltzer]]
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| thesis_url              = http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-164.pdf
| thesis_year             = 1976
| thesis_title            = Processor multiplexing in a layered operating system
| known_for               = [[TCP/IP]]<br />[[User Datagram Protocol|UDP]]<br />[[Multiversion concurrency control]]
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'''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 [[History of the Internet|early development]] of [[TCP/IP]], and was the designer of the [[User Datagram Protocol]] (UDP), though he finds this title "a little embarrassing".<ref>{{cite web|title=udp and me|url=https://www.deepplum.com/blog-dpr/?page_id=6|work=David P. Reed Blog| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919085731/https://www.deepplum.com/blog-dpr/?page_id=6 |accessdate=16 November 2010| archive-date=2018-09-19 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite Q | Q56503280 | access-date = 2022-04-05}} <!-- Saltzer 1984 --></ref>

He is also known for [[Reed's law]], his assertion that the utility of large [[Wiktionary:Network|network]]s, particularly [[social network]]s, can scale [[Exponential growth|exponentially]] with the size of the network.<ref>"The Law of the Pack," Harvard Business Review (February 2001) pp 23–4.</ref>

From 2003–2010, Reed was an [[adjunct professor]] at the [[MIT Media Lab]], where he co-led the [http://viral.media.mit.edu Viral Communications] group and the Communication Futures program. He currently serves as a senior vice president of the Chief Scientist Group at SAP Labs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deepplum.com/dpr/?sel=dprbiog|title=Reed's Locus|website=www.deepplum.com|language=en|access-date=2017-09-18}}</ref>

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

His 1978 dissertation<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=773 |title=Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System |last=Reed |first=David P. |authorlink=David P. Reed |work=MIT dissertation |date=September 21, 1978 |access-date=May 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051025124412/http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=773 |archive-date=October 25, 2005 |url-status=dead }}</ref> introduced [[multiversion concurrency control]]  (MVCC). MVCC is a [[concurrency control]] method commonly used by [[database management system]]s to provide concurrent access to the database and in programming languages to implement [[transactional memory]].<ref>[http://clojure.org/refs refs]. Clojure. Retrieved on 2013-09-18.</ref>

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==External links==
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* [http://www.deepplum.com/dpr Reed's Locus]
* [http://www.deepplum.com/dpr/?sel=dprbiog Biography]
* [http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-205.pdf Naming and synchronization in a decentralized computer system (Reed's thesis, 1978)]

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