David Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at the
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory. Since the mid-70s, he has been leading
the development of the Internet; from 1981-1989 he
acted as Chief Protocol Architect in this
development, and chaired the Internet Activities
Board. His design research looks at re-definition
of the architectural underpinnings of the
Internet, and the relation of technology and
architecture to economic, societal and policy
considerations. He supported the U.S. National
Science Foundation Future Internet Architecture
program. His current priorities include Internet
security, the challenges of large-scale
collection and curation of data about the
Internet, and mitigating the abusive uses of
Internet applications. He is past chairman of the Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board of the
National Academies, and has contributed to a
number of studies on the societal and policy
impact of computer communications. He is a Fellow
of the National Academy of Engineering and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Questions don't have to make
sense, but answers do.
--Susan Sto Helit