Robert Taylor, the man behind ARPA net, the first PC and the computer mouse has died

He was not the brains behind ARPA net – predecessor of the worldwide web -, the ALTO computer, the first PC or the computer mouse, but Robert Taylor brought together teams and resources that made all these possible. Taylor worked at ARPA, the Advanced Research Project Agency where he started the development process  which standardised the communication between computers and preceded the web as we know it now. He was also the man who, at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, started the design of the Alto computer and the development of the computer mouse. Developments which inspired Steve Jobs to design the Apple Lisa computer and Bill Gates to start Microsoft. Robert W. Taylor was 85 years of age and died at home in Woodside, California of complications of Parkinson´s disease.