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PAUL BARAN
PAUL BARAN
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He moved on to Raymond Rosen Engineering Products in 1950. There he designed circuits to correct tape speed errors for FM telemetry recording.
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His seminal work, first published in a series of RAND studies from 1960 to 1962, was documented in a multivolume study entitled "On Distributed Communications," published in 1964.1,2 Baran's ideas were considered radical at the time and were met with resistance from proponents of conventional circuit switching, which was used in the telephone network. The basic idea of such communications networks was also explored in independent research on queuing systems by Leonard Kleinrock, whose doctoral dissertation considered the mathematical properties of such systems.3,4 At the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
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systems. In a classic Baran sequence, when he founded Packet Technologies to explore the possibility of achieving interactive television, a new and radical idea of his led him to found Telebit Corporation (across the street!
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Both of us were frugal with company money so we traveled by Delta Airline senior citizen tickets. These tickets were $99, allowing senior citizens to fly anywhere in the US for $99.
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The last plane was leaving and there was a screaming crowd of passengers wanting to go on the flight rather than have to spend the night at the airport. Rather than wading into the angry crowd, Bill smiled and motioned to me to come with him as he took off down the empty airport corridors until he found a single agent at an empty counter closing up for the evening.
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But the reality is that each contribution has to follow onto previous work. Everything is tied to everything else.6 Mike Cassidy wrote in the Mercury News: Baran wasn't interested in fame.
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T Wilkinson, "A Digital Communications Network for Computers Giving Rapid Response at Remote Terminals," unpublished paper presented at the ACM Symposium, Operating Systems Problems, Oct.
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