Computing pioneer Robert Taylor dies

New York April 17: Mr Robert Taylor, who played an important role in creating the Computer has passed away here in Newyork on Sunday at the Age 85.

Recently he has been suffering from Parkinson's disease, died Thursday at his home in the San Francisco Peninsula community of Woodside, his son Kurt Taylor told to the media.

Robert Taylor, best known as the mastermind of ARPAnet (the internet's precursor).



While working for the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1966, Mr Taylor shepherded the creation of single computer network ARPANET — which evolved into the internet — after becoming frustrated he had to use three separate terminals to communicate with researchers around the country.