David Boggs

 ( 1950 Births ) 

Throughout 1973, they built several Ethernet interfaces for the Xerox Alto pioneering personal computer. Xerox filed a patent application on March 31, 1975, naming Metcalfe, Boggs, Chuck Thacker, and Butler Lampson as inventors. "Multipoint data communication system (with collision detection)" Filing date March 31, 1975, issued December 13, 1977 They published "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks," Ethernet's seminal paper, in 1976, following 18 months of work. It was reprinted in the Communications of the ACM in a special 25th anniversary issue. He produced a slide from a Metcalfe sketch of Ethernet terminology for a session at the National Computer Conference in June 1976, which was widely reprinted. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History presently has the original prototype circuit.

Boggs went to Stanford University for graduate study while working at Xerox, earning a master's degree in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1982 in electrical engineering. He wrote his dissertation on "Internet Broadcasting", Ph.D. Thesis a concept which Steve Deering, also at Stanford, later expanded upon to .

He was a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and received the IEEE Computer Society technical achievement award in 1988. He was also one of the developers of the PARC Universal Packet protocol architecture.

Boggs worked on the "Titan" project at the Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Laboratory (DECWRL) after leaving Xerox. He worked as a consultant in Silicon Valley and co-founded LAN Media Corporation (LMC) with Ron Crane. In July 2000, LMC was acquired by SBE Incorporated and then SBE was acquired by Neonode in 2007.

Boggs died of heart failure at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, on February 19, 2022, at the age of 71.

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