David D. Clark

David Dana Clark
Clark in 2009
Born (1944-04-07) April 7, 1944
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSwarthmore College (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, ME, PhD)
Known forClark-Wilson model, Multics
AwardsSIGCOMM Award
Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1998)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsInternet Architecture Board
National Research Council
MIT
Humboldt University of Berlin
ThesisAn input/output architecture for virtual memory computer systems (1973)
Doctoral advisorJerry Saltzer
Doctoral students

David Dana "Dave" Clark (born April 7, 1944) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer who has been involved with Internet developments since the mid-1970s. He currently works as a senior research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).