Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (born 1941) is a programmer who implemented an email system in 1971 on the ARPANet. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A programmer is someone who writes Computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email, or originally eMail, is a Store-and-forward method of writing sending receiving Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Email had been previously sent on other networks such as AUTODIN. The Automatic Digital Network ( AUTODIN) is a legacy data communicationsservice in the United States Department of Defense. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPAnet (previously, mail could only be sent to others who used the same computer). The ARPANET ( Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user from their machine, which has been used in email addresses ever since. The typographic character @, the at sign, denotes a pan-lingual abbreviation of the word 'at' [1]
The first email sent by him is not preserved and had content he describes as insignificant, something like "QWERTYUIOP". QWERTY (ˈkwɜː(rti is the most common modern-day Keyboard layout on English-language computer and Typewriter keyboards It takes its This is commonly misquoted as "The first e-mail was QWERTYUIOP" [2]
At first, his email messaging system wasn't thought to be a big deal. When Tomlinson showed it to a colleague, he said "Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on. " [3]
He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a long-time employee of Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a Nonsectarian private Research University located in Troy, New York
Career
Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York, but his family soon moved to the small, unincorporated village of Vail Mills, New York. Amsterdam New York is the name of two locations in Montgomery County New York Amsterdam (city New York Amsterdam (town New York He attended the Broadalbin Central School in nearby Broadalbin, New York. Broadalbin may refer to Broadalbin (village New York Broadalbin (town New York He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York where he participated in the co-op program with IBM. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a Nonsectarian private Research University located in Troy, New York Troy is a City in New York, US, and the County seat of Rensselaer County. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer in 1963. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of Engineering that deals with the study and application of Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
After graduating from RPI, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to continue his electrical engineering education. At MIT, Tomlinson worked in the Speech Communication Group and developed an analog-digital hybrid speech synthesizer as the subject of his Master's thesis. He received a S.M. in Electrical Engineering degree in 1965. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar.
In 1967 he joined the technology company of Bolt Beranek and Newman where he helped develop the TENEX operating system including ARPANET Network Control Protocol and TELNET implementations. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The TOPS-20 Operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC was the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10. The ARPANET ( Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational A Network Control Protocol is a protocol that runs atop the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP and that is used to negotiate options for a Network layer protocol running Telnet ( Tel ecommunication net work is a Network protocol used on the Internet or local area network (LAN connections He wrote a file-transfer program called CPYNET to transfer files through the ARPANET. Tomlinson was asked to change a program called SNDMSG, which sent messages to other users of a time-sharing computer, to run on TENEX. He added code he took from CPYNET to SNDMSG so messages could be sent to users on other computers — the first email.
Awards and honors
In 2000 he received the George R. Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award from the American Computer Museum (with the Computer Science Department of Montana State University). 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. George Robert Stibitz ( April 20, 1904 &ndash January 31, 1995) is internationally recognized as a father of the modern digital computer The American Computer Museum is a museum of the history of computing located in Bozeman Montana. Montana State University - Bozeman (MSU is a Public university located in Bozeman Montana, U In 2001 he received a Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for lifetime achievement. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences or IADAS was founded in 1998 in New York to help drive the progress of the Internet and evolving Also in 2001 he was inducted into the Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame. In 2002 Discover Magazine awarded him its Innovation Award. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. In 2004, he received the IEEE Internet Award along with Dave Crocker. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " IEEE Internet Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in June 1999
External links
- Tomlinsons' E-mail page
- Biography
- H@ppy birthday to you at BBC on Ray Tomlinson and @ Symbol
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