caption doctoral_advisor thesis_year work_institution citizenship thesis_title field birth_date thesis_url residence known_for image article_title name alma_mater
david p. reed jerome h. saltzer 1976 lotus software mit hewlett-packard interval research united states processor multiplexing in a layered operating system computer science 31 january 1952 http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/mit-lcs-tr-164.pdf needham , ma tcp/ip udp multiversion concurrency control david_p_reed . jpg david p. reed
 david patrick reed mit
david p. reed

david patrick reed -lrb- born january 31 , 1952 -rrb- 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 -lrb- udp -rrb- , though he finds this title `` a little embarrassing '' .
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 .
he is also known for reed 's law , his assertion that the utility of large , particularly social networks , can scale exponentially with the size of the network .
-lrb- it was first cited in `` the law of the pack , '' harvard business review -lrb- february 2001 -rrb- pp 23 -- 4 . -rrb-
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 -lrb- along with alan kay , julian lombardi , andreas raab , david a. smith , and mark mccahill -rrb- .
he is also on the advisory board of tti/vanguard .
