Ray Tomlinson, email inventor and selector of @ symbol, dies aged 74

Tributes flow for the American computer scientist who 'changed the way the world communicates'

Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email and the man who picked the @ symbol for addresses, has died aged 74.

"A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers," Raytheon spokesman Mike Doble said in a statement confirming his death.