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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.
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.
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.
Official Biography: Paul Baran. Paul Baran was born on April 29, 1926 in Grodno, Poland (now USSR). He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 1949, and an M.S. in Engineering (Computers) from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1959.
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).
Mar 28, 2011 · Paul Baran, an engineer who helped create the technical underpinnings for the Arpanet, the government-sponsored precursor to today’s Internet, died Saturday night at his home in Palo Alto,...
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...
Mar 28, 2011 · Paul Baran, who helped develop the building blocks of the Internet during the 1960s while working as a researcher at the RAND Corporation, died March 26 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif., from complications relating to lung cancer. He was 84.
Mar 28, 2011 · Paul Baran, whose work with packaging data in the 1960s has been credited with playing a role in the later development of the Internet, has died at age 84, his son said.
