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Paul Baran (1926–2011) was an American and Polish inventor, businessperson, computer scientist, and engineer. Born in Hrodna, he died in Palo Alto following a stroke. Baran worked for the RAND Corporation and is noted for his work on packet switching. He received the EFF Award, Marconi Prize, SIGCOMM Award, and National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Baran was educated at Drexel University and the University of California, Los Angeles. He served as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His publications include works on the political economy of growth and technology’s contributions to law enforcement. He is buried in Palo Alto.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 29 April 1926
- Died
- 26 March 2011
- Works
- 29
Top works
- Some caveats on the contributions of technology to law enforcement
- Marxism and psychoanalysis
- The political economy of growth
- The political economy of growth
- The longer view
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 282
- Total plays
- 3,098
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,828x
- “Mini-mental state”
· 1975 · cited 68,297x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,853x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,779x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,562x
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Quotes
- “The desire to tell the truth is only one condition for being an intellectual. The other is courage, readiness to carry on rational inquiry to wherever it may lead … to withstand … comfortable and lucrative conformity.”
- “The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.”
- “One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa.”
- “But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history.”
- “Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.”
- “If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1926-04-29 ) April 29, 1926, Grodno , Poland , (now Belarus )
- Died
- March 26, 2011 (2011-03-26) (aged 84), Palo Alto, California , U.S.
- Citizenship
- Poland , United States
- Alma mater
- Drexel University ( BS ), University of California, Los Angeles ( MS )
- Known for
- Packet switching
- Spouse
- Evelyn Murphy Baran ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 )
- Awards
- IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1990) , Computer History Museum Fellow (2005) , Marconi Prize (1991) , National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2007) , National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Institutions
- RAND Corporation
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran /ˈbærən/; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) 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.
Early life
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