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Raymond Samuel Tomlinson's Birth
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Accomplishments for Ray Tomlinson
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Accepted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Where Tomlinson studied electrical engineering. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1963 -
Intern at IBM
Tomlinson built test equipment to test transistors and used an IBM 1620 to write a program to compute p; which was his first computer program. -
Accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Where Tomlinson studied speech synthesis and earned his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1965. -
Started Employment with Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
Tomlinson started at BBN in June 1967, and had been here ever since. -
Added virtual memory system to a PDP-10 computer
Tomlinson added a virtual memory system on the memory bus of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10 computer; therefore designing the BBN pager. -
Sent First Networked electronic mail message
The first email ever sent was byTomlinson. He used the Arpanet which was a computer network created for the US government on a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10 computer to another DEC PDP-10. He innovated the use of the “@” sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine.
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Developed the TENEX operating system.
Tomlinson is well known for developing the TENEX operating system -
Published a paper on Selecting Sequence Numbers
Tomlinson pointed out the problem with long running conversations to connections in which sequence numbers would tend to wrap around a repeating cycle due to a 32-bit sequence number dimension. -
1990
Tomlinson worked on Pathfinder, a personal support system used to communicate and monitor with a GPS with radio communicative capabilities and a map base for location purposes. -
Awarded the George R. Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award from the American Computer Museum
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Awarded the Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
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Awarded the Discover Magazine’s Innovation Award
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Awarded the IEEE Internet Award.
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Named the Prince of Asturias Award Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research
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Mapbox Launched- Improvement to Tomlinson's Work
Mapbox is a provider that uses custom online maps for websites and applications that has since expanded to custom maps, offered by map providers such as Google Maps. -
Honored with the Eduard Rhein Kulturpreis Cultural Award.
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Microsoft 365 Launched-Improvement to Tomlinson's work
Office 365 subscription service is composed of Microsoft Office software suite. MS Outlook has added calendar- and task-management functions to basic messaging. The fundamental capabilities and methods are in large part to Artificial Intelligence features. -
Inducted into Internet Hall of Fame
Tomlinson inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society. -
Slack Technologies Launched-Improvement to Tomlinson's work
Slack is an instant messaging platform designed for collaboration in project teams by using channels. -
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson's Death
He passed awa at age 74
