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Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 151 - August 29, 2001 - ISSN 1539-5065
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MIT Professor, Key Internet Player, Passed Away on Monday
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
August 29, 2001
Reading AuctionBytes: MIT Professor, Key Internet Player, Passed Away on Monday
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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.
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/29/obit_dertouzos.htm
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7008131.html
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