NYT OBIT- Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: January 2, 2019 at 4:02:06 AM GMT+9
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> Subject: IS: NYT OBIT- Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81
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> EXCERPT:
> In late 1966, a 29-year-old computer scientist drew a series of abstract figures on tracing paper and a quadrille 
> pad. Some resembled a game of cat’s cradle; others looked like heavenly constellations; still others like dress 
> patterns.
>
> Those curious drawings were the earliest topological maps of what we now know as the internet...
>
> ... As a manager at the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA, Dr. Roberts designed much of the 
> Arpanet — the internet’s precursor — and oversaw its implementation in 1969.
>
> Dr. Roberts called upon a circle of colleagues who shared his interest in computer networking for help in creating 
> the technical underpinnings of the Arpanet, integrating and refining many ideas for how data should flow.
>
> Dr. Roberts was considered the decisive force behind packet switching, the technology that breaks data into discrete 
> bundles that are then sent along various paths around a network and reassembled at their destination. He decided to 
> use packet switching as the underlying technology of the Arpanet; it remains central to the function of the internet.
>
> And it was Dr. Roberts’s decision to build a network that distributed control of the network across multiple 
> computers. Distributed networking remains another foundation of today’s internet...
> [...]
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/30/obituaries/lawrence-g-roberts-dies-at-81.html
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