How are the RAND Corporation and the ARPANET connected?
One route through 3 sourced connections
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How are the RAND Corporation and the ARPANET connected? Here is one route, through 3 sourced connections.
1959–1968
Step 1 of 3.
Paul Baran worked at the RAND Corporation. Researcher.
He left RAND in 1968 to co-found the Institute for the Future.
Step 2 of 3.
Paul Baran developed packet switching.
Donald Davies in Britain devised a very similar system independently; his word, packets, is the term that was adopted.
Step 3 of 3.
Packet switching led to the ARPANET.
ARPANET’s planners drew on packet-switching work done in parallel at MIT, at RAND and at Britain’s National Physical Laboratory.
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