Paul Baran (born April 29, 1926) was one of the developers of packet-switched networks along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock. He was born in Poland, but his family moved to Boston in 1928. Baran did undergraduate work at Drexel University, obtained his Masters degree in Engineering from UCLA in 1959 and began working for the RAND Corporation in the same year. Wikipedia
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Editors Note: Paul Baran, chairman of the board, Com21, Inc., was the keynote luncheon speaker at CableLabs 1999 Winter Conference held in Denver February 9-11. www.cablelabs.com/news/newsletter/SPECS/JanFeb_SPECSTECH/...