Robert Taylor, innovator who shaped modern computing, dies

New York

LIKE many inventions, the Internet was the work of many inventors. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap than Robert Taylor, who died last Friday at 85 at his home in Woodside, California.

Born Robert William Taylor on Feb 10, 1932, in Dallas, he was adopted 28 days later in San Antonio by the Reverend Raymond and Marie Taylor, a Methodist minister and his wife.