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. |