Brian Reid (computer scientist)

Brian Reid
Born1949 (age 74–75)
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Known forScribe
Internet firewalls
Usenet maps
AwardsGrace Murray Hopper Award (1982)
Presidential Young Investigator Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University
Digital Equipment Corporation
Google
ThesisScribe: A Document Specification Language and its Compiler (1980)
Doctoral advisorBob Sproull

Brian Keith Reid (born 1949) is an American computer scientist. He developed an early use of a markup language in his 1980 doctoral dissertation. His other principal interest has been computer networking and the development of the Internet.