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Paul Baran

American-Jewish engineer (1926–2011)

Life: 1926 – 2011
Born: April 29, 1926
Died: March 26, 2011
Nationality: United States, Poland

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.