Editing Paul Baran (section)

==Early life==
He was born in [[Grodno]] (then in the [[Second Polish Republic]], and since 1945 part of [[Belarus]]) on April 29, 1926.<ref name="NYT-obit">{{cite news |title = Paul Baran, Internet Pioneer, Dies at 84 |author= Katie Hafner |date = March 27, 2011 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html |work = [[The New York Times]] }}</ref><ref name="IEEE GHN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Paul_Baran |title=Paul Baran |author=Nathan Brewer |date=March 28, 2011 |work=IEEE Global History Network |publisher=[[IEEE]] |location=New York |access-date=March 28, 2011 |display-authors=etal}}</ref> He was the youngest of three children in his [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian Jewish]] family,<ref>{{cite web |title= Paul Baran |author= Georgi Dalakov |work= History of Computers web site |url= http://history-computer.com/Internet/Birth/Baran.html |access-date= March 31, 2011 }}</ref> with the [[Yiddish]] given name "Pesach". His family moved to the United States on May 11, 1928,<ref>{{cite web |title= Morris "Moshe" Baran (1884–1979) |author= David Ira Snyder |date= August 4, 2009 |url= http://www.geni.com/people/Morris-Moshe-Baran/6000000005033975818 |work= Genealogy of the Baran family |publisher= Geni.com web site |access-date= March 29, 2011 }}</ref> settling in [[Boston]] and later in [[Philadelphia]], where his father, Morris "Moshe" Baran (1884–1979), opened a grocery store. He graduated from [[Drexel University]] (then called Drexel Institute of Technology) in 1949, with a degree in [[electrical engineering]]. He then joined the [[Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company]], where he did technical work on [[UNIVAC]] models, the first brand of commercial computers in the United States.<ref name="Franklin Institute">{{cite web |url=https://www.fi.edu/en/awards/laureates/search |title=Paul Baran - Franklin Laureate Database |work=[[The Franklin Institute Awards]] - Laureate Database |date=January 18, 2023 |publisher=[[The Franklin Institute]] |location=Philadelphia, PA |access-date=Jan 10, 2024}}</ref> In 1955 he married Evelyn Murphy, moved to Los Angeles, and worked for [[Hughes Aircraft]] on radar data processing systems. He obtained his master's degree in engineering from [[UCLA]] in 1959, with advisor [[Gerald Estrin]] while he took night classes. His thesis was on character recognition.<ref name="NYT-obit"/> While Baran initially stayed on at UCLA to pursue his doctorate, a heavy travel and work schedule forced him to abandon his doctoral work.<ref name=wizards>{{cite book|last=Hafner|first=Katie|title=Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the Internet|year=1996|publisher=Simon and Schuster|location=New York|isbn=0-684-81201-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/wherewizardsstay00haf_vgj/page/54 54]|edition=1st Touchstone|author2=Lyon, Matthew|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/wherewizardsstay00haf_vgj/page/54}}</ref>