David P. Reed

David Patrick Reed (born January 31, 1952 in Massachusetts ) is an American computer scientist who is known for a number of significant contributions to computer networks and wireless communication networks.

From 2003 to 2010, Reed was an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab , where he was a director of the Viral Communications Group and the Communication Futures program. He is currently Senior Vice President of the Chief Scientist Group at SAP Labs . He is one of the six main architects of the Croquet project (along with Alan Kay , Julian Lombardi, Andreas Raab, David A. Smith and Mark P. McCahill ) and a member of the TTI / Vanguard Advisory Board.

Contributions to computer science

His dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describes the Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) for the first time in September 1978 . MVCC is a parallelism control method that is often used by database management systems in order to carry out concurrent accesses to a database as efficiently as possible without blocking or endangering the consistency of the database.

Reed was involved in the early development of TCP / IP and was the designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), although he finds the title "a little embarrassing". He was one of the authors of the original paper on the end-to-end , end-to-end argument in systems design , published in 1984 .

He is also known for Reed's Law and the thesis that the usefulness of large networks , especially social networks , can scale exponentially with the size of the network . This was first published in "The Law of the Pack".

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ David Patrick Reed: Naming and synchronization in a decentralized computer system. (PDF) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1978, accessed on July 24, 2020 (English, 187 pages, 10 MB).
↑ David P. Reed: udp and me. Retrieved on July 24, 2020 (English): "It's a little embarrassing to be the inventor of something so simple"
^ Harvard Business Review: Harvard Business Review (February 2001) . February 2001, p. 23-4 .

personal data
SURNAME	Reed, David P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reed, David Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Massachusetts

[1] David Patrick Reed: Naming and synchronization in a decentralized computer system. (PDF) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1978, accessed on July 24, 2020 (English, 187 pages, 10 MB).

[2] David P. Reed: udp and me. Retrieved on July 24, 2020 (English): "It's a little embarrassing to be the inventor of something so simple"

[3] Harvard Business Review: Harvard Business Review (February 2001) . February 2001, p. 23-4 .