“the possibility of war exists but there is much that can be done to minimize the consequences.”
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Paul Baran
Paul Baran was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communications in computer networks worldwide, and went on to start several companies and develop other technologies that are an essential part of modern digital communication.
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business · American-Jewish engineer (1926–2011) · inventor · businessperson · computer scientist · engineer · economist · also Paul Baran, Pesach Baran, Baran
Born 29 April 1926 · Died 26 March 2011 · Q92617
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2026· 3 entries
“the survivors of the holocaust to shuck their ashes and reconstruct the economy swiftly.”
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“many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation.”
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2012· 2 entries
Wired: Paul Baran, the link between nuclear war and the internet
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Awarded Internet Hall of Fame (2012).
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2011· 11 entries
ZDNet: Packet switching inventor Paul Baran dies aged 84
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Inc: Timeout To Honor Paul Baran
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Engadget: Paul Baran, early internet engineer and architect, passes away at 84
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The Washington Post: Paul Baran, Internet pioneer, dies at 84
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Forbes: Paul Baran, The Cold War, And The Birth of The Internet
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NBC News: Paul Baran, Early Internet Scientist, Dies at 84
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Seattle Times: Internet pioneer Paul Baran dies in Calif. at 84
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Network World: Updated: Paul Baran, Internet and packet switching pioneer, is mourned
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Mercury News: Paul Baran, Palo Alto man who helped create precursor to Internet, dies
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From complications caused by lung cancer
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Died 2011-03-26.
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).
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Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2007).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Internet Award (2000).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded EFF Award (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Also founded Com21, an early cable modem company
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Marconi Prize (1991).
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1990· 1 entry
Won IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded SIGCOMM Award (1989).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award (1987).
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1985· 1 entry
Baran founded Metricom, the first wireless Internet company, which deployed Ricochet, the first public wireless mesh networking system
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1976· 1 entry
Along with Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie of Stanford University
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1971· 1 entry
Predicted the development of household email
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1969· 1 entry
When the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) started implementing the idea of an internetworked set of terminals to share computing resources, the reference materials that they considered included Baran and the R
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1968· 1 entry
Baran was a founder of the Institute for the Future and was then involved in other networking technologies developed in Silicon Valley
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1960· 1 entry
With more papers generalizing the techniques in the next two years
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1959· 3 entries
With advisor Gerald Estrin while he took night classes
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Studied at University of California, Los Angeles, master's degree (1959).
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Baran took on the task of designing a "survivable" communications system that could maintain communication between end points in the face of damage from nuclear weapons during the Cold War
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1955· 1 entry
Married Evelyn Murphy, moved to Los Angeles, and worked for Hughes Aircraft on radar data processing systems
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1949· 1 entry
Studied at Drexel University, licentiate (1949).
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1928· 1 entry
Settling in Boston and later in Philadelphia, where his father, Morris "Moshe" Baran (1884–1979), opened a grocery store
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-04-29.
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