Bruce Davie is a noted Australian computer scientist known for his work in the networking field. He has co-authored several textbooks, including (with Larry L Peterson) ''Computer Networks: A Systems Approach''. Dr. Davie received his B.E. (Elec) from the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public university, public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in the state ...

in 1984 and his Ph.D. from the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

in 1988. He recently served as the Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at VMware Inc. He joined VMware via the acquisition of

software-defined networking Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to network management that uses abstraction to enable dynamic and programmatically efficient network configuration to create grouping and segmentation while improving network performance and monit ...

(SDN) company Nicira, where he was Chief Service Provider Architect. Prior to Nicira, he was a Fellow at

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, where he led the team of architects responsible for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). From 1993 to 2012, he was an active participant in the

Internet Engineering Task Force The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet standard, Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster ...

and co-authored 17 RFCs. He was a visiting lecturer at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

from 2007 to 2011, and named as an

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in 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he was the chair of ACM

SIGCOMM SIGCOMM is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communications, which specializes in the field of communication and computer networks. It is also the name of an annual 'flagship' conference, organized by SIGCOMM ...

. In 2013, he received an

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from the University of Edinburgh. He is listed as co-inventor on over 40 U.S. Patents. In 2021, he joined the advisory boards of bloXroute Labs, a blockchain scaling startup, and Intentionet, an SDN startup. He has been active as a long-distance runner throughout his career, with a best marathon time of 2:46:51. He was also President of Greater Boston Track Club from 2004 to 2010.

External links

* L. Peterson and B. Davie.
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach
'. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 6th Edition, 2021. * B. Davie and Y. Rekhter.
MPLS: Technology and Applications
'. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 2000.

References

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