Frank Evans Heart was an American computer engineer influential in computer networking.
10 Facts About Frank Heart
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Frank Heart's father was an engineer at the Otis Elevator Company; his mother was an insurance agent.
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Frank Heart received both bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering in 1952.
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At Lincoln Lab, Frank Heart remained as a staff member after completing his master's degree.
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Frank Heart liked working with small, tightly knit groups composed of very bright people.
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Frank Heart believed that individual productivity and talent varied not by factors of two or three, but by factors of ten or a hundred.
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In 1966, Frank Heart left Lincoln Lab after being recruited by research and development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman.
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In 1972, Frank Heart appeared in the ARPANET documentary Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing.
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In 2014, Frank Heart was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.
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On June 24,2018, Frank Heart died of melanoma at age 89 in a retirement community in Lexington, Massachusetts.