Robert W. Taylor, a pioneer of the modern computer, dies at 85April 15, 2017
Esmeralda Bermudez
Los Angeles Times
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Robert W. Taylor, one of the most important figures in the creation of the modern computer and the internet, has died. He was 85.
According to his son Kurt Taylor, the scientist died Thursday at his home in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Woodside. He suffered from Parkinson's disease and other ailments.
Taylor's name was not known to the public, but it was a byword in computer science and networking, where he was a key innovator who transformed the world of technology.
Taylor — an outspoken, uncompromising visionary — was a Pentagon researcher in the 1960s when he launched Arpanet, which evolved into what we know today as the internet.
After leaving the Pentagon, he moved to Xerox's legendary Palo Alto Research Center, where he oversaw the engineering team responsible for such inventions as the personal computer, Ethernet and the visual computer display.
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