Designer of how Internet email is routed, Partridge has made notable contributions to internetworking, including working with Phil Karn on TCP round-trip time estimation and designing and building the world's fastest router in the mid-1990s.
He has worked on internetworking problems at BBN since 1983, serving as Chief Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies in the Internetwork Research Department. He has been an active member of ACM SIGCOMM and the IEEE Communications Society and chaired the National Research Council committee on how the Internet functioned on September 11, 2001. A Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, Partridge attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington D.C. and received his A.B., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.
