Re: Frank Heart Dies at 89

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From: hanc...
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:14

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On Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 1:38:39 AM UTC-4, 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.

> https://tinyurl.com/ycmngfrw

Not to minimize the contributions of Mr. Heart, but the NYT article
above avoids some earlier research in computer routing and networking.

http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/16-3/p104.htm

http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/19-2/p042.htm

http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/21-1/p054.htm

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