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  1. computerhistory.org › profile › paul-baranPaul Baran - CHM

    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). Baran began working with computers as a technician on the groundbreaking UNIVAC I (1951) computer system, the first commercially available computer in the ...

  2. Mar 1, 2001 · Paul Baran conceived the Internet's architecture at the height of the Cold War. Forty years later, he says the Net's biggest threat wasn't the USSR - it was the phone company.

  3. Jul 26, 2023 · Born on April 29, 1926, Paul Baran was an American inventor, economist, and electrical engineer who, alongside Leonard Kleinrock and Donald Davies, can be credited as the inventors of digital packet switching networks that dominantly formed the basis of the internet. Paul Brana: inventor, economist, and the father of the internet.

  4. Paul Baran. Several years before the ARPANET was created, Paul Baran had two ideas that became very important in the development of the ARPANET. The first was the idea of building a distributed network. The second was a technique for data transmission that later came to be called packet switching. Paul Baran was born in Poland in 1926.

  5. lemelson.mit.edu › resources › paul-baranPaul Baran | Lemelson

    Paul Baran, computer technologist and entrepreneur, was responsible for one of the fundamental concepts that enable today’s advanced computer networking systems: digital packet-switching. As such, he has sometimes been referred to as one of the “grandfathers of the Internet.”. Baran was born in Poland on April 29, 1926.

  6. Mar 28, 2011 · For Release. Monday. March 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.

  7. Sep 4, 2012 · Paul Baran passed away in March 2011, but his work lives on -- in more ways than one. Earlier this year, he was part of the inaugural class inducted into the Internet Society's (ISOC)

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