Ray Tomlinson View
Name: Ray Tomlinson
Born: 1941 in Amsterdam, New York, USA
Computer related contributions
- American Programmer who implemented an Email system in 1971 on the ARPANET (first system able to send Mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPAnet)
- Used the @ sign to separate the user from their machine, which has been used in email addresses ever since.
Honors and awards
- Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame (2012)
- Listed at #4 on the MIT150 list of the top 150 innovators and ideas from MIT (2011)
- Prince of Asturias award (2009)
- IEEE Internet Award (2004)
- Discover Magazine’s Innovation Award (2002)