Mark Stuart Day

Mark Stuart Day
	Mark Stuart Day is Chief Scientist at Riverbed Technology. He joined Riverbed as Technical Leader in August 2004. He was previously technical leader for product management in the content networking business unit of Cisco Systems. He joined Cisco with the acquisition of SightPath, a Boston-area startup, in 2000. Previously, he was at Lotus, where his work contributed to the creation of Lotus Sametime. In the IETF, he was founding chair of the working group on Content Internetworking (CDI) and was closing co-chair of the working group on Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP). He is an author of RFCs 2778 and 2779, which define the terms and requirements for interoperable presence and instant messaging and have been widely cited in both IETF and non-IETF work. He has 21 issued patents and additional pending patents relating to presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, security, and telephony. His other notable technical work includes contributions to the programming languages Argus and Theta and to the distributed object database Thor. During fall term 2002, he held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University, co-teaching the graduate database class.
		mday [at] alum.mit.edu

		He served for many years on the Governing Board of Harvard Yard Child Care Center, including three years as chair of Governing Board. He has also served as Moderator for the Parent Association of Boston University Academy. During the early 90's, he was lead singer for the Boston-area power-pop bands Anunga Runga, Condom Nation, LawnBoy 2000, and Hop on Pop. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995.