Raytheon BBN Technologies

Creator of the @ protocol accepted award on November 30 at the 2004 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference in Dallas, Texas

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 2, 2004 — BBNT Solutions, LLC ("BBN") BBN Technologies, a leading provider of advanced technology and research and development, is proud to announce the naming of Raymond Tomlinson, a principal engineer at BBN, as a recipient of the 2004 IEEE Internet Award for his vital role in the conceptualization, implementation and standardization of network e-mail. Established in 1999 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Board of Directors, the award is presented annually for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications.

While contributing in 1971 to the design of the ARPANET host-host protocol, Mr. Tomlinson developed the first network electronic mail system. This system quickly became the driving force behind the growth of what later became the Internet. Mr. Tomlinson has contributed to the design of several network protocols, including NVT protocol, TCP and IP protocols, packet radio protocols, and multi-media electronic mail protocols. He participated in the design of a secure network communication system, and implemented the first electronic key distribution. Although his accomplishments are numerous, Mr. Tomlinson is perhaps best known as the creator of the @ protocol for addressing electronic mail.

"My work would not have been possible without the pioneering spirit of BBN Technologies, which for fifty years has been creating solutions for critical technology challenges," said Mr. Tomlinson. "I am honored to receive this award from my fellow engineers."

A Senior Member of the IEEE, Mr. Tomlinson has received numerous awards, including the American Computer Museum's George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Award and the Webby award for lifetime achievement, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. He has been inducted into the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Hall of Fame and received the Discover Magazine award for technical innovation.

Mr. Tomlinson has also played a key role in the development of time-shared computing. He developed the software for the real-time input-output system of a time-shared SDS-940 computer system and was one of the principal designers of the TENEX time-sharing monitor for the DEC PDP-10 computer.

During his 32 years at BBN Technologies, Mr. Tomlinson has made significant contributions to many additional projects. He was the principal designer of Jericho, a single-user computer for use by BBN scientists, and he implemented a large portion its operating system. As a member of the Monarch team, Mr. Tomlinson developed the instruction sequencer for a large, shared-memory parallel processor computer using custom-designed VLSI circuits. He was the principal software architect for the Pathfinder project, which developed systems for health and status monitoring of, and communication between, members of special teams operating in situations with inadequate information infrastructure. Mr. Tomlinson has also worked on a video information server and multi-media conferencing systems. For the past 17 years Tomlinson has held the title of Principal Engineer, a position of distinction at BBN Technologies.

More recently, Mr. Tomlinson developed a Logistics Anchor Desk (LogAD) to provide a situation awareness display and other tools that integrate database information on the location of critical resources to aid logisticians in the discovery of problems and the creation of solutions. He also spent a year revising the CyberTrust software architecture to make it more effective. Currently, Mr. Tomlinson is working on the Advanced Logistics Project (ALP), an agent-based logistics planning system architecture aimed at incorporating adequate persistence to survive an outage without data loss.

Mr. Tomlinson earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a M.S. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Mr. Tomlinson has published and presented extensively on processor hardware design, distributed architecture, networking protocols, time sharing, and speech synthesis.