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Leo L. Beranek, an engineer whose company designed the acoustics for the United Nations and concert halls at Lincoln Center and Tanglewood, then built the direct precursor to the internet under contract to the Defense Department, died on Oct. 10 at his home in Westwood, Mass. He was 102.
His death was confirmed by his son James.
Dr. Beranek taught acoustic engineering at Harvard and M.I.T. for more than three decades after World War II, conducting research there that laid the groundwork for acoustic advances with wide social impact, including noise standards for public buildings and airports. But one of his most notable achievements was well outside the field of acoustics.
In 1969, the company he helped found, Bolt, Beranek & Newman, won a contract from the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency to build the first computer-based network, which came to be called Arpanet.
When were you first exposed to the Arpanet/Internet? Did you ever use "Bang Paths" for sending e-mail?
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Wednesday October 19 2016, @06:23PM
Sorry, another wrong date from me - that was 1977, or course.
Yes I still do have a copy of my Original K&R C manual printed on an asr33 from those days.
And cross compiling 8080 assembler on a PDP11 would have been faster and cheaper, and a whole lot less painful, but management did not allow that sort of thing.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!