Glenn Ricart

Updated: 12/01/2019 by Computer Hope
Glenn Ricart

Name: Glenn Ricart

Born: Unknown

Computer-related contributions

  • Computer scientist who help create the original Internet (ARPANET).
  • Set up what was probably the first Internet Exchange point, the FIX (Federal Internet Exchange) in College Park, Maryland that interconnected the original federal TCP/IP networks. Later extended to form MAE-East.nodes in 1969.
  • Led the team that wrote the code for the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC.