David Lennox Mills (1938 - 2024)

Born 3 Jun 1938 in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States

Ancestors

Died 17 Jan 2024 at age 85 in Newark, New Castle, Delaware, United States

Biography

Mother is Adele (Dougherty) Mills but the Profile is locked down.

David Mills is Notable.

David Lennox Mills (June 3, 1938 – January 17, 2024) was an American computer engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware. He was an Internet pioneer who led the Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures (GADS) Task Force.

He was known as the internet's "Father Time" for designing the Network Time Protocol, which is intended to synchronize all participating computers across different computer systems and networks to within a few milliseconds of Coordinated Universal Time.

In 1977, Mills began working at COMSAT on synchronizing the clocks of computers connected to ARPANET, inventing the Network Time Protocol (NTP). ^[1]

Obituary

Professor David L Mills, one of the original wizards who built the internet, has died at the age of 85, leaving a remarkable technological legacy.

He is perhaps best known for his work on NTP, the Network Time Protocol, which he both invented and first implemented. This technology, which addresses an exceptionally thorny technical problem, allows computers to synchronize their time clocks with one another. For this, he was often referred to as the internet's "Father Time." ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Hopper, Nate (September 30, 2022). "The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on January 30, 2024. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
2. ↑ David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85, accessed January 30, 2024

• Birth: "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
  Birthdate: 3 Jun 1938; Birth County: Alameda
  Ancestry Record 5247 #2347073 ($, accessed 30 January 2024)
  David Lennox Mills born on 3 Jun 1938.
• 1950 Census: "1950 United States Federal Census"
  National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: San Carlos, San Mateo, California; Roll: 508; Page: 73; Enumeration District: 41-139
  Ancestry Sharing Link (free access)
  Ancestry Record 62308 #256851070 ($, accessed 30 January 2024)
  David L Mills (11), single son, in household of Richard A Mills (36) in San Carlos, San Mateo, California, USA. Born in California.

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