Frank Heart
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Frank Heart was an American computer engineer best known for leading the team that built the first Interface Message Processors, the packet-switching nodes that formed the backbone of the early ARPANET and laid groundwork for the modern internet.
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| instanceOf |
American
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computer engineer → electrical engineer → human → |
| areaOfInfluence |
United States computer networking research community
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global internet infrastructure development → |
| contributedTo |
ARPANET backbone infrastructure
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packet-switching network design → |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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| designed |
reliable packet-switching node architecture for ARPANET
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| employedAs |
project manager
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systems engineer → |
| employer |
BBN Technologies
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Bolt Beranek and Newman → |
| familyName |
Heart
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| fieldOfWork |
computer engineering
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computer networking → packet switching → |
| genre |
computer networking hardware design
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| givenName |
Frank
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| hasActivity |
designing fault-tolerant network systems
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leading multidisciplinary engineering teams → |
| hasSignificantProject |
first generation IMPs for ARPANET
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| impact |
laid groundwork for the modern internet
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| influenced |
development of modern internet routing infrastructure
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| knownFor |
contributions to the ARPANET
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early development of the internet → leading the team that built the first Interface Message Processors (IMPs) → |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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| memberOf |
engineering team at Bolt Beranek and Newman that built the first IMPs
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| name |
Frank Heart
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| nationality |
United States of America
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| notableAchievement |
helped create the packet-switching backbone of ARPANET
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| notableWork |
design and implementation of the first ARPANET Interface Message Processors
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| occupation |
computer scientist
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engineer → |
| partOf |
ARPANET development team at BBN
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| role |
project leader for the ARPANET IMP development
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| workLocation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Referenced by (3)
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IMP
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Interface Message Processor → |
designedBy |
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Frank Heart
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name |