David Boggs, a computer networking pioneer best-known for co-inventing Ethernet, has died. He was 71.
Born in Washington DC on June 17, 1950, Boggs as a child liked to tinker with ham radios and was an amateur radio operator. He went on to study electrical engineering at Princeton University, and graduated in 1972. His big break came a year later, when he joined Xerox PARC, the legendary research lab that developed the basis of modern computing concepts, from laser printing and object-oriented programming to WYSIWYG editing and a graphical user interface that we would recognize today.
In among these technologies was Ethernet, which was created by Boggs and his colleague Robert Metcalfe.