Biography
During the early 1970s Crowther worked at defense contractor and internet pioneer Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), where he was part of the original small ARPAnet development team. His implementation of a distributed distance vector routing system for the ARPAnet was an important step in the evolution of the Internet.
Crowther met and married Pat Crowther while at MIT.
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