https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/01/ted-dabney-a-founder-of-atari-and-a-creator-of-pong-dies-at-81.html

Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry as a co-founder of Atari and helped create the hit console game Pong, died on May 26 at his home in Clearlake, Calif. He was 81.

The cause was esophageal cancer, his wife, Carolyn Dabney, said.