Ray Tomlinson

Ray Tomlinson

male, 68 years old
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (born 1941) is a programmer who implemented an email system in 1971. It was the first system able to send mail between...
Leo Beranek

Leo Beranek

male, 95 years old
Leo Leroy Beranek (born May 15, 1914) is an acoustics expert, former MIT professor and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman...

William Crowther

male
William ("Willie" or "Will") Crowther (born 1936) is a computer programmer and caver. He is best known as the co-creator of "Colossal Cave...

Jerry Burchfiel

male
Jerry Burchfiel is a Vice President for Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) active in the early design of the TCP/IP protocol suite. He has also...
Richard Bolt

Richard Bolt

male, deceased (2002)
Richard Henry Bolt Ph.D., better known as Richard Bolt or Dick Bolt, (Peking, China, April 22, 1911-Boston, Massachusetts, January 13, 2002) was a...

John Curran

male
John Curran is the Chairman of ARIN and Chief Technical Officer of ServerVault, as well as former Chief Technical Officer of XO Communications and...
Wally Feurzeig

Wally Feurzeig

male
Wally Feurzeig is an inventor of the LOGO programming language, and a well-known researcher in Artificial Intelligence. During the early 1960s, BBN...
Bert Sutherland

Bert Sutherland

male, 73 years old
William R. (Bert) Sutherland (b. 1936), older brother of Ivan Sutherland, was the longtime manager of three prominent research labs, including Sun...
Edward Fredkin

Edward Fredkin

male
Edward Fredkin (born 1934) is an early pioneer of digital physics (in recent work he uses the term digital philosophy (DP)). His main contributions...

Daniel Murphy

male
Daniel L. Murphy is one of the architects of the TENEX operating system developed at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in the 1970s. He attended MIT in the...