He died the father of email and inventor of the @ – Daily News – Lisbon

Tomlinson drew key elements of e-mail, the categories of “subject” and “to” (recipients)

Raymond Tomlinson, considered the father of electronic mail (email) and creator symbol “at” sign (@) to use the internet, died Saturday at age 74 after an apparent heart attack, said today another pioneer “web”.

the announcement of the death was made in a message posted on Twitter, Vinton Gray Cerf. This does not help where Tomlinson died or the cause of death, indicating that, however, was immediately confirmed by numerous publications in technology.

Tomlinson, who won in 2009 the Prize Prince of Scientific Research of Asturias and Technical and in 2012 was included of Fame on the Internet Hall ( “Hall of Fame”), it is also recognized for having designed the fundamental elements of the electronic messages, the categories of “subject” (the e-mail subject) and ” to “(recipients).

the American engineer was the first to use the symbol for” at “sign to indicate that a message should go through a server by separating the network recipient’s name.

Tomlinsom was born in Amsterdam in the state of New York in 1941 and, after graduating in Electronic Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute Rensselear (1963), turned out his PhD in the same area at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT).

in 1967 started working at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), linked to the development of the ARPANET to the Pentagon, which consisted of interconnecting multiple computers and servers via telephone lines to implement the power processing data and decentralize the storage of information.

the main areas of research have gone through the development of SNDMSG program, an acronym for “send message” (send message) to the operating system TENEX, and used by ARPANET and the CPYNET file transfer program.

Without recognition of their value by its directors, Tomlinson worked several years in secret and in October 1971, he managed to exchange messages among multiple computers to which used the at sign as a symbol to separate the recipient’s name e-mail recipient computer (server).

This time, to historians of the Internet, marked the birth of email, although at the time such was not worth the Tomlinson any recognition of the importance of done.

in the decades he worked at BBN, where he was promoted to chief engineer in 1987, Tomlinson contributed to desenvpolvimento of NVT and TCP- communications protocols IP.

throughout the 1990s, Tomlinson worked in Logistics Anchor Desk program (LAD) to the uS army and Advance Logistics Project (ALP), which improved security in trade programs . e for Cybertrust company

Among the many awards he received during his career include the premiums George R. Stibitz (2000), the Webby Award (2001) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE Internet (2004), the latter shared with Dave Crocket.

June 17, 2009 shared with Martin Cooper, “father” of mobile telephony, the Asturias Prince Award for Scientific and Technical Research.