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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Heart canonical | 3 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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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 ⓘ |
| designed | reliable packet-switching node architecture for ARPANET ⓘ |
| employedAs |
project manager
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systems engineer ⓘ |
| employer |
BBN Technologies
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Bolt Beranek and Newman ⓘ |
| familyName | Heart ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer engineering
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computer networking ⓘ packet switching ⓘ |
| genre | computer networking hardware design ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
designing fault-tolerant network systems
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leading multidisciplinary engineering teams ⓘ |
| hasSignificantProject | first generation IMPs for ARPANET ⓘ |
| impact | laid groundwork for the modern internet ⓘ |
| influenced | development of modern internet routing infrastructure ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| memberOf | engineering team at Bolt Beranek and Newman that built the first IMPs ⓘ |
| name | Frank Heart self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped create the packet-switching backbone of ARPANET ⓘ |
| notableWork | design and implementation of the first ARPANET Interface Message Processors ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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engineer ⓘ |
| partOf | ARPANET development team at BBN ⓘ |
| role | project leader for the ARPANET IMP development ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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