Robert W Taylor, who was instrumental in creating the internet and the modern personal computer, has died at the age of 85.
Mr Taylor, who had Parkinson’s disease, died on Thursday at his home in the San Francisco Peninsula community of Woodside, his son Kurt Taylor told US media.
While working for the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1966, Mr Taylor shepherded the creation of single computer network APRANET — which evolved into the internet — after becoming frustrated he had to use three separate terminals to communicate with researchers around the country.
As he had predicted, the limited communications tool morphed into a system that supplies people with fingertip access to everything from encyclopedias to investment advice.
In 1961, Mr Taylor was a project manager for NASA when he directed funding to Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute, who helped develop the modern computer mouse.
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