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==External links== *{{cite web |url=http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_rand.htm |title=Paul Baran Invents Packet Switching |date=January 17, 2011 |work=livinginternet.com |publisher=William Stewart |access-date=March 31, 2011 }} *{{cite web |url=http://purl.umn.edu/107101 |title=Oral history interview with Paul Baran |first=Judy E. |last=O'Neill |date=March 5, 1990 |publisher=[[Charles Babbage Institute]] |location=Minneapolis, MN |access-date=March 31, 2011 }} A 44-page transcript in which Baran describes his working environment at [[RAND Corporation|RAND]], his initial interest in survivable communications, the evolution of his plan for distributed networks, the objections he received, and the writing and distribution of his eleven-volume work, ''On Distributed Communications''. Baran discusses his interaction with the group at [[DARPA|ARPA]] who were responsible for the later development of the [[ARPANET]]. *{{cite journal |last=Ryan |first=Patrick S. |date=June 1, 2005 |title=SSRN-Wireless Communications and Computing at a Crossroads: New Paradigms and Their Impact on Theories Governing the Public's Right to Spectrum Access |journal=Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=239–274 |location=Boulder, CO |publisher=[[University of Colorado Law School]] |issn=1543-8899 |oclc=66137086 |ssrn=732483}} This describes Paul Baran's development of packet switching and its application to wireless computing. *{{cite web |url=http://www.cablelabs.com/news/newsletter/SPECS/JanFeb_SPECSTECH/tech.pgs/leadstory.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060316015220/http://www.cablelabs.com/news/newsletter/SPECS/JanFeb_SPECSTECH/tech.pgs/leadstory.html |title=Convergence: Past, Present, and Future: Paul Baran Addresses CableLabs® Winter Conference |date=February 1999 |publisher=[[CableLabs|Cable Television Laboratories, Inc]] |location=Louisville, CO |access-date=March 31, 2011 |archive-date=March 16, 2006 }} A transcript of Baran's keynote address at the Countdown to Technology 2000 Winter Conference that includes a photo. *{{cite web |url=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032811-paul-baran-packet-switching-obit.html |title=Paul Baran, Internet and packet switching pioneer, is mourned |first=Bob |last=Brown |date=March 27, 2011 |publisher=[[Network World|Network World, Inc]] |location=Framingham, MA |access-date=April 2, 2011 |quote=Baran credited with inventing packet switching in 1960s against military backdrop |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831223417/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032811-paul-baran-packet-switching-obit.html |archive-date=August 31, 2011 }} *{{cite web |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/baran.html |title=Paul Baran |date=November 6, 2005 |work=ibiblio.org |publisher=[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] |location=Chapel Hill, NC |access-date=April 2, 2011 }} *{{cite journal |last=Gilder |first=George |author-link=George Gilder |date=June 2, 1997 |title=Inventing the Internet Again |journal=Forbes ASAP |volume=159 |issue=11 |pages=106–120 |location=New York |issn=1078-9901 |oclc=173437996 |access-date=April 8, 2011 |url=http://www.gilder.com/public/telecosm_series/inventing.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401042211/http://www.gilder.com/public/telecosm_series/inventing.html |archive-date=April 1, 2011 |url-status=dead }} *[http://marconisociety.org/fellows/paul-baran/ Paul Baran named 1991 Marconi Fellow] *[https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html Publications by Paul Baran] RAND Corporation {{s-start}} {{s-ach|aw}} {{s-bef|before=[[Gerald R. Ash]] and [[Billy B. Oliver]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal]]|years=1990}} {{s-aft|after=[[C. Chapin Cutler]], [[John O. Limb]] and [[Arun Netravali]]}} {{s-end}} {{Internet Hall of Fame}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Baran, Paul}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2011 deaths]] [[Category:American telecommunications industry businesspeople]] [[Category:American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent]] [[Category:American people of Polish-Jewish descent]] [[Category:Belarusian Jews]] [[Category:Drexel University alumni]] [[Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] [[Category:Internet pioneers]] [[Category:Packets (information technology)]] [[Category:People from Grodno]] [[Category:People from Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)]] [[Category:National Medal of Technology recipients]] [[Category:RAND Corporation people]] [[Category:Polish emigrants to the United States]] [[Category:UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni]] [[Category:20th-century American inventors]] [[Category:Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates]]
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