✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Paul Baran - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org · 4,449 words · saved by 1 readers

Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran /ˈbærən/; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) 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. He was born in Grodno (then in the Second Polish Republic, and since 1945 part of Belarus) on April 29, 1926.[1][2] He was the youngest of three children in his Lithuanian Jewish family,[3] with the Yiddish given name "Pesach". His family moved to the United States on May 11, 1928,[4] settling in Boston and later in Philadelphia, where his father, Morris "Moshe" Baran (1884–1979), opened a grocery store. He graduated from Drexel University (then called Drexel Institute of Technology) in 1949, with a degree in electrical engineering. He then joine

Paul Baran - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American-Jewish engineer (1926–2011) For the economist with same name, see Paul A. Baran . (now [[Belarus]])"},"death_date":{"wt":"{{Death date and age|2011|03|26|1926|04|29}}"},"death_place":{"wt":"[[Palo Alto, California]], U.S."},"residence":{"wt":""},"citizenship":{"wt":"[[Second Polish Republic|Poland]], [[United States]]"},"nationality":{"wt":""},"fields":{"wt":""},"workplaces":{"wt":"[[RAND Corporation]]"},"alma_mater":{"wt":"[[Drexel University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[University of California, Los

Explore this link on the map →

related reading