Dave Crocker (engineer)
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David Howard Crocker is an American network engineer, renowned for his work on email since the early 1970s, when he worked for four years at UCLA with ARPANET.[1] Crocker earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at UCLA in 1975. In 1977 he obtained a Master in Communication Theory and Research at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. When he graduated in Computer Science at the University of Delaware, in 1982, he had completed his doctoral work on the MMDF, a computer program designed to transmit email.[2]
Crocker was the author of RFC 822, which was published in 1982 to define the format of Internet mail messages,[3] and was the first listed author of the earlier RFC 733 on which it was based in 1977.[4] He was co-architect and Director of System Development at MCI Mail, where he worked with Vint Cerf to build a national email service.[5][6][unreliable source?] He was one of the original IETF Area Directors, serving from 1989–1996.[citation needed]
Awards and Honors
Crocker received the 2004 IEEE Internet Award along with Raymond Tomlinson for their work on the "conceptualization, first implementation, and standardization of networked email".[7]
See also
References
- ^ Crocker, D.; Neigus, N.; Feinler, J.; Iseli, J. (6 November 1973). Arpanet Users Interest Working Group Meeting. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC0585. RFC 585.
- ^ Dave Crocker (November 1979). An Internetwork Memo Distribution Facility--MMDF. Proceedings, Sixth Data Communications Symposium.
- ^ David H. Crocker (13 August 1982). Standard For The Format Of ARPA Internet Text Messages. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC0822. RFC 822.
- ^ David H. Crocker; John J. Vittal; Kenneth T. Pogran; D. Austin Henderson, Jr (21 November 1977). Standard For The Format Of ARPA Internet Text Messages. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC0733. RFC 733.
- ^ Wade-Hahn Chan (26 February 2007). "Remembering MCI Mail". netgov.com.
- ^ "Who Invented Email, Email History, How Email Was Invented".
- ^ "IEEE Internet Award; Recipient List" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
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