Brian Reid (computer scientist)
| Brian Reid | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 (age 67–68) |
| Institutions |
Stanford University Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | Scribe: A Document Specification Language and its Compiler (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bob Sproull |
| Known for |
Scribe Internet Firewalls |
| Notable awards |
Grace Murray Hopper Award (1982) Presidential Young Investigator Award |
Brian Keith Reid (born 1949) is an American computer scientist. He developed an early use of a markup language in his 1980 doctoral dissertation. Reid's other principal interest has been computer networking and the development of the Internet.
Reid received his B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1970, and then worked in industry for five years before entering graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was awarded a PhD in Computer science in 1980.
His dissertation research developed the Scribe word processing system, for which he received the Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1982. Reid presented a paper describing Scribe in the same conference session in 1981 in which Charles Goldfarb presented Generalized Markup Language (GML), the immediate predecessor of SGML.
From 1980–1987, he was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University in the computer systems laboratory. There he was a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984, working along other new faculty such as John L. Hennessy, David R. Cheriton, and Mark Horowitz. Along with faculty such as Susan Owicki, Forest Baskett, and James H. Clark, his research concerned the connection of Stanford to the Internet, and the development of the SUN workstation. As the Stanford University Network attracted attacks, he became interested in possible network defenses.
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