Dan Lynch, Tech-Community Visionary
Dan Lynch gave us Interop, which eventually became the NetWorld+Interop trade show we know today. He also founded CyberCash, a payment-processing company that was at the heart of the Internet's evolution into a commercially viable entity. Although he hasn't moved completely away from technology, he is enjoying the, er, fruits of his labors, growing grapes at the winery he bought in St. Helena, Calif.
As director of computer facilities at SRI International, Lynch led the team responsible for transitioning the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) to TCP/IP. He did a great deal of implementation and troubleshooting; in his words, he "helped the inventors [of the Internet] make it work." He believed the technology being used by the ARPANET would "take over the world," but he didn't see that start to unfold until the first Interop, in Santa Clara, Calif., in 1988.
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