# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-l-mills
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:46:53.985Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-l-mills"
name: "David L. Mills"
slug: "david-l-mills"
description: "David Lennox Mills was an American computer engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware. He was an Internet pioneer who led the Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures (GADS) Task Force. He was known as the internet's \"Father Time\" for designing the Network Time Protocol, which is intended to synchronize all participating computers across different computer systems and networks to within a few milliseconds of Coordinated Universal Time."
tagline: "American academic computer engineer (1938–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DL_Mills-2_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1938-06-03"
deathDate: "2024-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.02466
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/"
sources:
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    title: "David L. Mills"
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    title: "ديفيد ميلز"
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    title: "David L. Mills"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mills"
    title: "David Mills"
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    title: "デイヴィッド・L・ミルズ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump