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  Name David Dana Clark
  Nationality USA
  Field Computer Science
  Work Institution Internet Architecture Board <br> National Research Council <br> MIT
  Prizes SIGCOMM Award <br>Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology


David Dana Clark (b. April 7 , 1944 ) is an American Computer Scientist . He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1966. In 1968, he received his Master's and Engineer's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology , where he worked on the I/O architecture of Multics under Jerry Saltzer . He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1973. 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 .

In 1990 he was awarded the SIGCOMM Award in recognition of his major contributions to Internet protocol and architecture. In 2001 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association For Computing Machinery . In 2001, he was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado.

David Clark is also known for his theory of standards that he calls the apocalypse of the two elephants.
The bottom line of this theory is the fact that the time at which a standard is established is absolutely critical to its success.


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  NAME Clark, David Dana
  SHORT DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
  DATE OF BIRTH April 7 , 1944