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This is a
list of famous Jewish American Computer
Scientists. Paul
Baran, packet switching
Paul Baran
(born 1926) was one of the developers of
packet-switched networks along with
Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock. He
was born in Poland, but his family moved
to Boston in 1928. Baran did
undergraduate work at Drexel University,
obtained his Masters degree in
Engineering from UCLA in 1959 and began
working for the RAND Corporation in the
same year.
The development of a communication
network that would withstand a nuclear
attack was important to US defence
strategy. Baran developed his ideas for
packet-switched networks as a solution. |
