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Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran / ˈ b æ r ən /; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was an American-Jewish engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks.
May 3, 2024 · Paul Baran, American electrical engineer, inventor of the distributed network and, contemporaneously with British computer scientist Donald Davies, of data packet switching across distributed networks. These inventions were the foundation for the Internet.
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An Internet pioneer, Paul Baran invented packet switching techniques that can be credited with playing a key role in the development of the Internet. Born in Poland, Paul immigrated to the US, where he graduated from Drexel University in 1949 with a degree in electrical engineering.
Mar 28, 2011 · Paul Baran invented packet switching, a distributed network system that enabled the Internet. He worked at RAND from 1959 to 1968 and co-founded the Institute for the Future.
Mar 28, 2011 · US scientist Paul Baran, whose work in the 1960s helped pave the way for the internet, has died aged 84. Mr Baran thought up the idea of making communication networks resilient to attack or...
Paul Baran, a researcher at RAND, offered a solution: design a more robust communications network using “redundancy” and “digital” technology. At the time, naysayers dismissed Baran's idea as unfeasible. But working with colleagues at RAND, Baran persisted.
Paul Baran was born in Grodno, Poland, in 1926. He received a BS in electrical engineering from Drexel Institute of Technology (1949) and an MS in electrical engineering from UCLA (1959). Baran began working with computers as a technician on the groundbreaking UNIVAC I (1951) computer system, the first commercially available computer in the ...
