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Ray Tomlinson

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(person)Ray Tomlinson - An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the firstelectronic mail} program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.


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Ray Tomlinson isn't nearly the household name that Alexander Graham Bell or Thomas Alva Edison have become.
Revolutionary E-Mail Celebrates 30 Years by SALKOWSKI, JOE / Los Angeles Business Journal
Elin honored Ray Tomlinson, BBN's inventor of the "@" sign for e-mail addresses.
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An engineer named Ray Tomlinson hit upon the ``at'' sign for e-mail addresses.
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