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David L. Mills

American academic computer engineer

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born: 1938
died: 2024
age at death: 85
known for: computer scientist, engineer

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David Lennox Mills was an American computer engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware. He was an Internet pioneer who led the Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures (GADS) Task Force. He was known as the internet's "Father Time" for designing the Network Time Protocol, which is intended to synchronize all participating computers across different computer systems and networks to within a few milliseconds of Coordinated Universal Time.

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