Paul Baran
Paul Baran · Technology & Engineering
Co-invented packet switching, a foundation of the Internet.
1926, Grodno, Poland (now Belarus) — 2011, Palo Alto, California, United States
Poland · United States
Paul Baran is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-invented packet switching, a foundation of the Internet.
Baran, an engineer at the RAND Corporation, developed in the early 1960s the concept of distributed communication networks in which messages are broken into blocks and routed independently — an idea that, alongside Donald Davies' work, became packet switching, the foundation of the Internet. He was born into a Jewish family in Grodno and emigrated to the United States as a child.
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Co-invented packet switching, a foundation of the Internet.
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