David P. Reed is an American computer scientist, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for a number of significant contributions to computer networking. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, mathematics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... A computer network is a system for communication between computers. ...

He was heavily involved in the early development of TCP/IP, and was the designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). 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. History of the Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet runs. ... The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. ... The end-to-end principle is one of the central design principles of the Internet Protocol (IP) that is the basis of the Internet. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. (It was first cited in "The Law of the Pack," Harvard Business Review (February 2001) pp 23-4.) Reeds law is the assertion of David P. Reed that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network. ... The term assertion has several meanings: Assertion -- a computing programming technique Logical assertion -- logical assertion of a statement Assertions are also a kind of speech act. ... A social network is a social structure made of nodes which are generally individuals or organizations. ... The term exponential may refer to any of several topics in mathematics: Exponential distribution Exponential function Exponential growth, exponential decay Exponential time Matrix exponential Exponential map (in differential geometry) All relate in some fashion to exponents. ...

Dr. Reed is an Adjunct Professor at the MIT Media Lab in the Viral Communications group and is one of six principal architects of the Croquet project (along with Alan Kay, Julian Lombardi, Andreas Raab, David A. Smith, and Mark McCahill). Croquet Avatar with Wireframe Portal, eToy, & Mirror Croquet Spreadsheet Realtime, Interactive, 3D Map of this very same world. ... Alan Kay during an interview. ... Julian Lombardi in 2006. ... David A. Smith at work in 2005. ... Mark McCahill (born February 7, 1956) has been involved in developing and popularizing a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s. ...

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