David Walden, who helped build the Interface Message Processor that switched data among computers using the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet, died at 79
Katie Hafner / New York Times : Tweets: @philiped and @nytimestech Tweets: Philip Elmer-DeWitt / @philiped : Never met Walden, but interested to see that he was hired at BBN the same year I was. David Walden, Computer Scientist at Dawn of Internet, Dies at 79 https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimestech : Over nine frenetic months, the computer scientist David Walden worked with a small team of engineers to build the first routing computer for Arpanet, the precursor for the internet, in 1969. He has died at 79. https://www.nytimes.com/...