Dr. Mills is most well-known for developing the Network Time Protocol (NTP), a system that allows computers on a network to synchronize their time.

Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), has passed away aged 85. He created NTP in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and network, a critical ...

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

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David Mills, who created the tool that keeps the internet’s clocks synchronized, has died at 85. The Oakland-born man invented and spent decades upgrading Network Time Protocol, a system that ...

Apic/Getty Images The network time protocol was only one of Dr. Mills’s contributions to the underlying architecture of the internet.

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He invented the Network Time Protocol, a bedrock technology relied on by the entire modern internet.