{
  "id": 6636717,
  "title": "Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/codeveloper-of-ethernet-predecessor-dies-at-91",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-10T20:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IEEE Spectrum",
    "slug": "ieee-spectrum",
    "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/codeveloper-of-ethernet-predecessor-dies"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Franklin “Frank” Kuo Codeveloper of ALOHAnet Fellow, 91; died 14 April Kuo helped develop ALOHAnet , a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa , in Honolulu. The system went online in 1971 and represented the first public demonstration of a wireless packet data network . It was an inspiration for Robert Metcalfe ’s development of Ethernet a couple of years later. In 2020…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}