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Inventor of NTP protocol that retains time on billions of units dies at age 85
Enlarge / A photograph of David L. Mills taken by Raul654 on April 27, 2005. (credit score: Raul654 / Benj Edwards / Getty Pictures) On Thursday, Web pioneer Vint Cerf introduced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Community