David Reeves Boggs was an American electrical and radio engineer who lived from 1950 to 2022. He developed early prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways and network interface cards and, along with Robert Metcalfe and others, co-invented Ethernet, the most popular family of technologies for local area computer networks. He was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Princeton University in 1972 with a degree in electrical engineering, then joined the Xerox PARC research staff, where he met Robert Metcalfe and joined his project.
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David Reeves Boggs (June 17, 1950, February 19, 2022) was an American electrical and radio engineer who developed early prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways, network interface cards and, along with Robert Metcalfe and others, co-invented Ethernet, the most popular family of technologies for local area computer networks.
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In 1975, Metcalfe, Boggs and their colleagues Charles Thacker and Butler Lampson filed for a patent on Ethernet, which was granted in 1977.
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