Michael Dertouzos, who was central in establishing the Web as an international standard, died Monday in a Boston hospital. Dertouzos, 64, was director of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science since 1974 and lived in Weston, Massachusetts. His concept of the "information marketplace," which he first wrote about in 1980, offered an ambitious vision of networked computers that prefigured the Web.
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