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Paul Baran

American electrical engineer
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Born:
April 29, 1926, Grodno, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]
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March 26, 2011, Palo Alto, California, U.S. (aged 84)
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Paul Baran (born April 29, 1926, Grodno, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]—died March 26, 2011, Palo Alto, California, U.S.) American electrical engineer, inventor of the distributed network and, contemporaneously with British computer scientist Donald Davies, of data packet switching across distributed networks. These inventions were the foundation for the Internet. In 1928 Baran’s family moved to Philadelphia. Baran studied electrical engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia (B.S., 1949) and engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (M.S., 1959). In 1959 he became a researcher at the RAND Corporation, a think tank that provided analyses of various issues affecting public policy ...(100 of 484 words)

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