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Danny Cohen

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Who

Danny Cohen · Technology & Engineering

What

Pioneered real-time internetworking and voice-over-IP.

When

1937, Haifa, British Mandate Palestine (present-day Israel) — 2019, United States

Where

Israel · United States

Biography

Danny Cohen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Pioneered real-time internetworking and voice-over-IP.

How & why

Danny Cohen was an Israeli-American computer scientist who pioneered real-time interactive applications on the early internet and demonstrated the first packet voice and video over the ARPANET, foundational to modern voice-over-IP. His 1980 essay 'On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace' coined the terms 'big-endian' and 'little-endian'.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Pioneered real-time internetworking and voice-over-IP.

1937

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science