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Article #624614Re: Frank Heart Dies at 89
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:40
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:40
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On 6/28/2018 12:38 AM, Charles Richmond wrote: > 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. > That should be Dave Walden, *not* Dave Walker... mia culpa. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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