What is Frank Heart?
[[File:Frank Heart.jpg|right|200px]] '''Frank Evans Heart''' (May 15, 1929 – June 24, 2018) was an American [[Computer engineering|computer engineer]]. He was born in [[New York City]], but was raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. Heart designed the first [[routing]] computer for the [[ARPANET]], the predecessor to the [[Internet]]. In 2014, Heart was inducted into the [[Internet Hall of Fame]]. Heart died of [[melanoma]] on June 24, 2018 in [[Lexington, Massachusetts]] at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/technology/frank-heart-who-linked-computers-before-the-internet-dies-at-89.html |title=Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89 |last=Hafner |first=Katie |date=June 25, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=June 26, 2018}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/frank-heart Internet Hall of Fame bio] * [http://www.historyofcomputercommunications.info/Individuals/abstracts/frank-heart.html A History of Computer Communications: 1968-1988] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627062359/http://www.historyofcomputercommunications.info/Individuals/abstracts/frank-heart.html |date=2018-06-27 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Heart, Frank}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from melanoma]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Massachusetts]] [[Category:American computer scientists]] [[Category:Engineers from New York (state)]] [[Category:Scientists from New York City]] [[Category:People from Yonkers, New York]] {{US-bio-stub}}