John Day

John Day has been involved in parallel processing, operating systems, and advanced computer networking research since 1970 when he was involved in the design of protocols for ARPANet and its successor, the Internet. He managed development of the OSI reference model, naming and addressing and the development of a recursive application architecture. Since 1984, he has pioneered the development of network management architectures, as well as several related products and protocols at every layer. A recognized historian, Day has also published on the history of China and most recently contributed to the 2007 Smithsonian institution exhibit, Encompassing the Globe. Recently, he has published Patterns In Network Architecture (Prentice Hall), which looks where networking has been and develops a new architecture based on first principles. He is also an adjunct at Boston University.