David Walden: key obituary facts
Is David Walden dead? Yes. David Walden died on May 5, 2022, at age 79.
Cause of death: David Walden's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was David Walden known for?
He was an American computer scientist.
More about David Walden
Born: 1942.
Place of birth: Longview.
Place of death: East Sandwich.
Gender: male.
Occupation: computer scientist, programmer.
Nationality: United States.
Education: University of California, Berkeley, Diablo Valley College, San Francisco State University.
Employer: BBN Technologies.
Also known as: Dave C. Walden, David Walden, David Corydon Walden, David C. Walden, D.C. Walden.
Known for: Packet switching technologies for ARPANET.
David Walden, a computer scientist and early Internet pioneer who helped develop the ARPANET’s packet-switching technology, died on May 5, 2022, at age 79.
An American, he was born in Longview, Washington, and worked at BBN Technologies, where he contributed to the Interface Message Processor, the packet-switching node that supported the ARPANET. Walden also wrote for the IEEE Computer Society’s Annals of the History of Computing and was a member of the TeX Users Group.