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Paul Baran

American engineer who worked at the RAND Corporation from 1959 to 1968 and developed an early form of packet switching.

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Dates
29 Apr 1926 – 26 Mar 2011
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  1. Life 29 Apr 1926 – 26 Mar 2011
  2. worked at RAND Corporation (researcher) 1959–1968

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  • RAND Corporation 1959–1968 researcher Primary record 1

    He left RAND in 1968 to co-found the Institute for the Future.

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  • Packet switching Scholarship & press 2

    Donald Davies in Britain devised a very similar system independently; his word, packets, is the term that was adopted.

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Timeline 3 dates
  1. 29 Apr 1926 – 26 Mar 2011 Paul Baran
  2. 1959–1968 Paul Baran worked at RAND Corporation
  3. 1964 Paul Baran authored On Distributed Communications
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  1. Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet, RAND Corporation, 22 Mar 2018. Primary record
    Taking night classes at UCLA, he earned an engineering master's degree in 1959—the same year he joined RAND.
    His seminal work first appeared in a series of RAND studies published between 1960 and 1962 and then finally in the tome “On Distributed Communications,” published in 1964.
  2. NIHF Inductee Paul Baran, Who Invented Packet Switching, National Inventors Hall of Fame. Scholarship & press
    Paul Baran developed a fundamental concept behind today's advanced communications networking systems: digital packet switching.
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