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David Boggs who is a Co-inventor of the Ethernet and a pioneer Xerox PARC computer researcher sadly passed away at the age of 71. David was an American electrical and radio engineer who was known for his prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways, and network interface cards alongside Robert Metcalfe.
His sudden death was shocking news for the engineering community. According to the sources, the engineer took his last breath on February 19 at the Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California. The news of her death was confirmed by his wife, Marcia Bush.
What Was David Boggs Cause of Death?
Marcia confirmed this news in a comment to the New York Times. Along with this, she also confirmed the cause of his death and it was heart failure due to which, he lost his life. He was the co-inventor of Ethernet, the most popular family of technologies for local area computer networks.
Since the news of his death was confirmed on social media, many achieving engineers and news agencies paid tribute to him and expressed their deep condolence. He always work hard in his career and achieved some big achievements in his entire life.
David Reeves Boggs better known as David Boggs was born on June 17, 1950, in Washington, DC, US. James Boggs and Jane McCallum were the parents of David Boggs. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC in 1968 and later, attended Princeton University from where he earned his graduate degree with BCSE in electrical engineering in 1972.
How Did David Boggs Die?
Later, he joined the Xerox PARC where he worked with Robert Metcalfe. Since he had experience as an amateur radio operator WA3DBJ, he got to know about the similarities between Metcalfe’s theories and radio broadcasting technologies and also joined the project.
The NYTimes Tech tweeted,” In the 1970s, David Boggs helped create Ethernet, the powerful networking technology that connects PCs to printers, other devices, and the internet in offices and homes. He has died at 71″. During his career, he was noticing that Metcalfe was facing some struggles with the electrical impulses through the wires.
Later, he started working hard for this and they two became life-long business partners more than the next two years, they succeeded to discover the very first versions of Ethernet. It was the very first networking technology. At that time, several companies and Universities were using the computer network in a long-distance which was known as ARPANET that later became the Internet at this time. Ethernet was the first device to connect more than a single device within proximity. Today, we lost one of the biggest engineers and developers in the world. He will be remembered for his discovery.
