David D. Clark

thumb|David D. Clark in his office at MIT David Dana Clark (born April 7, 1944) is an American computer scientist. From 1981 to 1989, he acted as chief protocol architect in the development of the Internet, and chaired the Internet Activities Board, which later became the Internet Architecture Board. He has also served as chairman of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Sourced We reject: kings, presidents and voting.We believe in: rough consensus and running code. https://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/People/DDC/future_ietf_92.pdf A Cloudy Crystal Ball -- Visions of the Future PDF 1992-07-16 2016-05-13 (Presentation given at the 24th Internet Engineering Task Force) frequently cited as the motto of the Internet engineering community External links Category:Computer scientists from the United States Category:living people Category:1944 births Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty