David L. Mills
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David Lennox Mills (June 3, 1938 – January 17, 2024) was an American
Early life and education
David Lennox Mills was born in Oakland, California, on June 3, 1938.[2][3] His mother, Adele (née Dougherty), was a pianist, and his father, Alfred, was an engineer.[4][3] He had glaucoma since birth, but a surgeon saved some of the vision in his left eye when he was a child.[2] He attended a school in San Mateo, California, for the visually impaired.[5]
Mills earned his
Career
In 1977, Mills began working at
Mills was a contributor to the standards and software that came to be the Internet. He was the chairman of the
including two Internet Standards.[15]In 1999, he was inducted as a
Mills was a professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, where he was a full professor from 1986 to 2008.[5] He subsequently held an adjunct appointment at Delaware so that he could continue to teach.[18]
Personal life
Mills married Beverly Csizmadia in 1965.[4]
Mills was an amateur radio operator, with callsign W3HCF.[2][19][20]
His vision began worsening around 2012, and by 2022 he was fully blind.[5] Mills died in Newark, Delaware, on January 17, 2024, at age 85. He was survived by his wife, his daughter Leigh, his son Keith and his brother Gregory.[2][4][3][21]
References
- ^ David L. Mills. "Biography and Credentials". David L. Mills, PhD, Professor. University of Delaware. Archived from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved October 30, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Proven, Liam (January 23, 2024). "David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85". www.theregister.com. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
- ^ a b c Vynck, Gerrit De (January 26, 2024). "David Mills, the internet's 'father time,' dies at 85". The Washington Post.
- ^ a b c Risen, Clay (January 26, 2024). "David L. Mills, Who Kept the Internet Running on Time, Dies at 85". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c d e f g Hopper, Nate (September 30, 2022). "The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on September 30, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
- ^ The Data Concentrator Archived January 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, David Mills, May 1968, CONCOMP Project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- ^ System/360 interface engineering report Archived January 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, D. L. Mills, November 1967, CONCOMP Project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- ^ RFC 778: DCNET Internet Clock Service, D. L. Mills, COMSAT Laboratories, April 18, 1981
- ^ RFC 958: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Archived January 20, 2024, at the Wayback Machine, D. L. Mills, M/A-COM Linkabit, September 1985
- ISBN 978-0-8493-5805-0. Archivedfrom the original on July 18, 2014.
- ISBN 1555580335.
- ^ "Fuzzball: The Innovative Router" Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, web page on NSF's "The Internet: Changing the Way We Communicate" Archived May 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Story of the PING Program". ftp.arl.army.mil. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
- ^ "RFC Index". Archived from the original on November 14, 2023. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
- ^ "Official Internet Protocol Standards". Archived from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 2002 | IEEE Communications Society". Archived from the original on August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
- ^ "IEEE Internet Award Recipients: 2013 – David Mills" Archived September 23, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, IEEE Web site, accessed January 27, 2013
- ^ "David L. Mills, PhD, Professor". Archived from the original on January 20, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
- ^ Dave Mills Personal Stuff Archived December 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Web page, University of Delaware
- ^ "Amateur License – W3HCF – Mills, David L" Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, FCC Universal Licensing System
- ^ Edwards, Benj (January 19, 2024). "Inventor of NTP Protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on January 19, 2024. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
External links
- A Maze of Twisty, Turney Passages - Routing in the Internet Swamp. Lecture by David L. Mills at the University of Delaware. Given on May 26, 2005.
- Oral history interview with David L. Mills, David Farber.
- The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time, New Yorker article by Nate Hopper. Popular article on NTP, covering some of the contribution and life of David Mills.