by Bob Brown

Notable deaths of 2016 in technology, science & inventions

News Analysis

Mar 7, 20161 min

E-mail, PC, computer science, movie and other pioneers lost in 2016

The worlds of networking, computing, science and inventions in general have lost some pioneering figures in 2016, from those who brought us networked email to the earliest PCs to movie icons. Here we pay tribute to those innovators.

(Review 2015’s notable deaths here.)

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by Bob Brown

Bob Brown is the former news editor for Network World.

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