Frank Heart Dies at 89

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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:38

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Frank Heart, the [BBN] engineer who oversaw development of the first 
routing computer for the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet, died on 
Sunday [June 24th, 2018] at a retirement community in Lexington, Mass. 
He was 89.

The cause was complications of melanoma, his son Bennet said.

In 1969, Mr. Heart led a small team of talented young engineers to build 
the Interface Message Processor, or I.M.P., a computer whose special 
function was to switch data among the computers on the Arpanet. To this 
day, many of the principles Mr. Heart emphasized — reliability, error 
resistance and the capacity for self-correction — remain central to the 
internet’s robustness.

Frank Heart was the manager at BBN of the three programmers (Will 
Crowther, Dave Walker, and Bernie Cosell) who put together the first 
successful software load for the IMP used on the ARPANET.


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Heart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor


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