Godfather of e-mail Ray Tomlinson passes away at 74
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, renowned American programmer and the inventor of email, has passed way at the age of 74, his employer company says.
"It is with great sadness we acknowledge the passing of our colleague and friend, Ray Tomlinson. A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers," his employer, the electronics giant Raytheon Company, said in a statement on Monday.
Tomlinson, a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), invented electronic messages in 1971 and was the first to choose the ‘@’ symbol for the messaging system.
"His work changed the way the world communicates and yet, for all his accomplishments, he remained humble, kind and generous with his time and talents, he will be missed by one and all," the statement added.
A Raytheon spokesman said Tomlinson died on Saturday morning in Lincoln, in the US state of Massachusetts, adding that the cause of his death is yet to be confirmed.
Australian media reported that Tomlinson had died of a suspected heart attack.
Among loads of tributes paid to him on social media, Google's Gmail team said on a tweet, "Thank you, Ray Tomlinson, for inventing email and putting the @ sign on the map. #RIP."
Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York in 1941.
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