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Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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He was involved in the early development of TCP/Intellectual Property, and was the designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), though he finds this title "a little embarrassing". He was also one of the authors of the original paper about the end-to-end principle, End-to-end arguments in system design, published in 1984. He is also known for Reed"s law, his assertion that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.
(lieutenant was first cited in "The Law of the Pack," Harvard Business Review (February 2001) pp 23–4.)
Reed is an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory in the Viral Communications group and is one of six principal architects of the Croquet project (along with Alan Kay, Julian Lombardi, Andreas Raab, David A Smith, and Mark McCahill).
He is also on the advisory board of Tension Technology International/Vanguard.
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