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Donald Davies Dead

Donald Davies
KindPerson
Born1924
Died2000
StatusDead
Fieldnetworking
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Independently invented packet switching at the UK NPL — and coined the term packet.

Independently invented packet switching (1965) at NPL, coined the term 'packet,' and built the first local packet network.\n\nBaran gets the American credit; Davies gets the word and the British credit.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies