James Tice Ellis was a computer scientist

Computer scientist

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 best known as the co-creator of Usenet

Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...

, along with Tom Truscott

Tom Truscott

Tom Truscott is a computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi. One of his the first endeavors into computers were writing a computer chess program and then later working on a...

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Born in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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, Ellis grew up in Orlando, Florida

Orlando, Florida

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. Before developing Usenet, Ellis attended Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

. He later worked as an Internet security consultant for Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

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. He was also Manager of Technical Development at CERT

CERT Coordination Center

The CERT Coordination Center was created by DARPA in November 1988 after the Morris worm struck. It is a major coordination center in dealing with Internet security problems....

. He was married and had two children when he died of lymphoma

Lymphoma

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 in 2001 in Harmony, Pennsylvania

Harmony, Pennsylvania

Harmony is a borough in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 937 at the 2000 census. It is located about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Geography:...

. He came up with the word Usenet.

Ellis and Truscott were awarded the 1995 Usenix

USENIX

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 Life Time Achievement Award.

External links

• Usenet creator Jim Ellis dies, Associated Press
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  , on USAToday.com
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  , June 29, 2001, retrieved on December 22, 2006.
• Second Annual EFF Pioneer Awards