David Mills
- Birthdate
- 1938/06/03
- Death date
- 2024/01/17
- Fields of study
- Computing
- Awards
- IEEE Internet Award
Biography
David Mills was born on June 3, 1938. Mills attended University of Michigan where he earned two bachelor's degrees in engineering and engineering mathematics, two master's degrees in electrical engineering and communications science, and a doctorate in computer and communications science. His doctorate was the second awarded in computer science by the University of Michigan.
In 1977 he began working at Comsat, and he was the chairman of the Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures Task Force (GADS) and the first chairman of the Internet Architecture Task Force. He invented the Network Time Protocol in 1981; the Exterior Gateway Protocol in 1984; and in 1985, the DEC LSI-11 based fuzzball router that was used for the 56 kbit/s NSFNET.
In 1999 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and in 2008, Mills was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). In 2013 he received the IEEE Internet Award "For significant leadership and sustained contributions in the research, development, standardization, and deployment of quality time synchronization capabilities for the Internet."
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Mills taught at the University of Delaware. Mills died on January 17, 2024.
