John Day (computer scientist)

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John D. Day (from Kinmundy, Illinois, born 1947) [1] is an electrical engineer, an Internet pioneer, [2] and a historian. [2] [3] [4] He has been involved in the development of the communication protocols of Internet and its predecessor ARPANET since the 1970s, [4] [5] and he was also active in the design of the OSI reference model. [4] [5] [6] [7] He has contributed in the research and development of network management systems, distributed databases, supercomputing, and operating systems. [6] [8]

Day received his BSc degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and MSc degree in 1976 from the University of Illinois. [6] From 1969 through 1978 he worked on the Illiac IV supercomputer project.

Day was adjunct professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2006 and is currently a lecturer in Computer Science at Boston University Metropolitan College. [4] [6]

Day is the author of the 2008 book Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals, [2] [3] [9] which gave rise to Network IPC, later referred to as the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA), and the RFC documents RFC 520, RFC 728, RFC 731, and RFC 732. He has also published articles on the history of cartography, [6] [8] on topics such as Matteo Ricci's 16th–17th century maps. [10]

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References

  1. Day, John D. (2008). Patterns in network architecture : a return to fundamentals. Pearson Education. ISBN   9780132252423 . Retrieved 2010-01-23 via Library of Congress Catalog Record.
  2. 1 2 3 Johnson, Johna Till (Mar 16, 2008). "Remember the Internet's past, or risk repeating it". IT World Canada. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011.
  3. 1 2 Crowcroft, Jon (2008). "Book review: Patterns in Network Architecture" (PDF). The Internet Protocol Journal. 11 (1): 37–38.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "John Day, ECE Adjunct Professor, Department Spotlight Seminar". Boston University, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. 2008. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  5. 1 2 "Authors: John Day". InformIT. Pearson Education. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "John Day curriculum vitae". A History of Computer Communications. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  7. Day, John D.; Zimmermann, Hubert (1983). "The OSI reference model". Proceedings of the IEEE . 71 (12): 1334–1340. doi:10.1109/proc.1983.12775. S2CID   30875675.
  8. 1 2 "Part-Time Faculty". Boston University Metropolitan College, Department of Computer Science. Archived from the original on 2010-01-18. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  9. Day, John (2007). Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals. Prentice Hall. ISBN   978-0-13-225242-3.
  10. Day, John D. (1995). "The search for the origins of the Chinese manuscript of Matteo Ricci's maps". Imago Mundi. 47: 94–117. doi:10.1080/03085699508592815. JSTOR   1151306.