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Internet Pioneer David J. Farber Dies at 91

6/18/2026

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David J. Farber died on Feb. 7 at age 91 of heart failure, according to his son Emanuel.
He began his career in the 1950s at Bell Laboratories, when computers used Teletype or punch-card readers.
He taught at Keio University in Tokyo from 2018.
In the 1970s, Farber and his Ph.D. student Jonathan Postel met at a pancake house to shape the Internet Protocol, which the New York Times called an architecture role.

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David J. Farber died on Feb. 7 at age 91 of heart failure, according to his son Emanuel.
He began his career in the 1950s at Bell Laboratories, when computers used Teletype or punch-card readers.
He taught at Keio University in Tokyo from 2018.
In the 1970s, Farber and his Ph.D. student Jonathan Postel met at a pancake house to shape the Internet Protocol, which the New York Times called an architecture role.