On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85 on January 17, 2024. The announcement came in a post ...

Retired UD engineering professor remembered for being an early internet pioneer thanks to his innovative approach to synchronized time keeping An on-campus secular memorial for Dr. Mills will take ...

David L. Mills, a computer scientist who invented the system that allows connected computers to sync their clocks, a bedrock technology relied on by the entire modern internet, died Jan. 17 at his ...

Continental has patented a method to protect time synchronization in a network by monitoring messages related to grandmaster clock changes. If a new clock with better parameters is proposed, a virtual ...