Craig Partridge (born July 17, 1961)[1] is an American computer scientist, known for his contributions to the technical development of the Internet.

Partridge graduated in 1979 from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington D.C.[2][3] He received his A.B.

During the 1980s, Dr. Partridge designed the method of email routing using domain names, and, in collaboration with Phil Karn, made contributions to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) round-trip time estimation by inventing Karn's algorithm.

In the 1990s he co-invented anycast addressing, led the team that developed the first multi-gigabit router.

[5] Partridge served on the first Internet Engineering Steering Group, has chaired the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM), been editor-in-chief of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Network Magazine and SIGCOMM's Computer Communication Review, and served on the National Science Foundation's Computer, Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee, and on the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.