David Boggs, an inventor of Ethernet, passed away
David Boggs, a US electrical engineer and one of the inventors of Ethernet, has passed away. He was a computer researcher at Xerox Park. The New York Times reports that he was 71 years old at the time of his death.
Boggs graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1968. Boggs is a Princeton University graduate too. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1973 and a PhD in 1982.
Using the Ethernet PC Connection Standard discovered by Boggs, it is possible to connect connected PCs to other computers, printers and the Internet. This technology is used in both wireless and wireless connections.
The first version of Ethernet was designed in 1973, two years after Xerox Park joined Computer Research. This link is able to transfer data at a speed of 2.94 Mbps via coaxial cable.
Ethernet was established as a standard protocol on wired devices in the 1980s, and in 1990, Ethernet was used as a foundation technology in WiFi.
