David Boggs

David Boggs
Born	1950 United States
Residence	California, United States
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Computer networking
Institutions	Xerox PARC
Alma mater	Princeton University Stanford University
Known for	Co-invention of Ethernet
Notable awards	IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (1988) ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow

David Reeves Boggs (born 1950) is an electrical and radio engineer from the United States who developed early prototypes of , 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.

Boggs attended Woodrow Wilson High School (Washington, D.C.) and graduated in 1968. Boggs graduated from Princeton University. As a young graduate he worked at Xerox PARC, where he met Robert Metcalfe while the latter was debugging an Interface Message Processor interface for the PARC systems group. Since Boggs had considerable experience as an amateur radio operator, he recognized similarities between Metcalfe's theories and radio broadcasting technologies and joined his project. According to The Economist, "the two would co-invent Ethernet, with Mr Metcalfe generating the ideas and Mr Boggs figuring out how to build the system."

During 1973 they built several Ethernet interfaces for the Xerox Alto pioneering personal computer. On March 31, 1975, Xerox filed a patent application listing Metcalfe, Boggs, Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson as inventors. In 1976, after 18 months in the writing, they published "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks", Ethernet's seminal paper. It was reprinted in a special 25th anniversary issue of the Communications of the ACM. He produced a slide for a talk at the June 1976 National Computer Conference from a Metcalfe sketch of Ethernet terminology that was widely reproduced. The original prototype circuit is now in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.

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