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Franklin "Frank" Kuo

Electrical engineer and IEEE Fellow who worked in computer communications at Bell Labs, the University of Hawaii, the US Pentagon and SRI International, and who wrote one of the first textbooks on computer communication networks.

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Frank Kuo
Franklin Kuo

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Frank Kuo, who put ALOHAnet's uncoordinated radio channel online in 1971, has died at 91

IEEE Spectrum reports the ALOHAnet codeveloper died on 14 April at 91. The 1971 network let computers on separate Hawaiian islands transmit on one shared UHF channel with no central coordinator.

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