Paul Baran dies at 84...

Paul Baran, the person who brought the world together left the world on 26th March. Baran invented and developed the "packet switching" technology which speed up the internet and changed the face of the web. 


Today we speak of high data transfers and data security with billions of websites opening simultaneously around the globe. Paul Baran has been the pioneer of the development of this technology and has been awarded for his excellence  - IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal,National Medal of Technology and Innovation, National Inventors Hall of Fame.


Paul Baran died in Palo Alto, California at the age of 84 due to complications from lung cancer. Upon his death James Thomson, the president of RAND stated that "Our world is a better place for the technologies Paul Baran invented and developed, and also because of his consistent concern with appropriate public policies for their use.". One of the fathers of the internet, Vinton Cerf, stated that "Paul wasn't afraid to go in directions counter to what everyone else thought was the right or only thing to do,"