The female engineer Daniel Courtney Lyncha leading figure in the commercial acceleration of the Internet in the 1980s and 1990s, died this weekend at the age of 5 at his home in St. Helena, California (USA). 82 years.
After graduation Master of mathematics After graduating from the University of California in 1965 and joining the U.S. Armed Forces, where he worked as a programmer, Daniel C. Lynch was hired to work at the Stanford Research Institute in 1973 Arpanet projectthe forerunner network of today’s Internet, created in 1969 at the request of the US Department of Defense, which wanted a means of communication between the country’s various organizations and institutions.
In 1980, he moved to the University of Southern California to work on another Arpanet node, but four years later he left the company to enter the business world with the goal of furthering it Business potential on the Internet.
Initially through workshops that emerged at the end of the 80s interop event, which even published its own monthly publication, ConneXions, focused on data networks.
News of Daniel C. Lynch’s death was shared by his daughter Julie Lynch-Sasson, who reported that he was suffering from kidney failure, The New York Times reported.