LOS ANGELES - a role in the later development of the Internet was credited to Paul Baran, whose work with packaging data to play with in the 1960s, is died at the age of 84, his son said.
Baran died at his home in Palo Alto, California Saturday night from lung cancer, David Baran told the associated press on Sunday night.
Paul Baran is best known for the idea of "packet-switched," in which data in small packs bundled and sent over a network. Baran explains the concept while working on cold war topics for the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California in 1963 and 1964.
1969 The technology was a concept of the US Department of Defense to create the ARPANET, forerunner in the Internet numerous reports on this issue said.
The idea had in its development was that private companies had been advanced.
"Paul was to not fear what everyone else go counter in directions, the correct or only what thought to do was," said Vinton Cerf, a Vice President at Google and a colleague and longtime friend of Baran, the New York Times, which first reported Baran's death.
President George W. Bush presented the National Medal of technology and innovation in 2008. A year earlier, he began joining into the Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio, such as Thomas Edison.
He told the AP the time that he was satisfied there such Hall.
"I think that we a lot of attention to music and football, why not give that come with ideas that we use in a different way," he said.
Baran's method of moving data was developed, to after a nuclear attack function still. Because there was no centralized switches, and combine data simply find a new route, could if a were not working, the system always still work, could even if much of which were destroyed, said the RAND Corporation on your site.
He called the process "Message block". Donald Davies from United Kingdom independently developed a similar system, and his term "packet-switched," would eventually be adopted, said RAND.
Would it become decades before the social and economic opportunities for the technology would clear, and Baran would miss a lot of money and glory, that came with it, but he was happy to see you happen to life, his son said in a telephone interview.
"He was a man of infinite patience", said David Baran.
The son said, that be father a paper recently released, which he in 1966 on the future of computer networks, which he wrote to worked, speculate.
"It spells this idea that online networks for shopping and news, that the people would be up to the year 2000," he said. "Idea was an absolute lunatic fringe."
Paul Baran was born in Grodno, Poland and his family moved to the United States when he was 2 years old, according to the RAND Web site.
Baran received many awards late in life for his work, but he was seeking, far the credit spread.
"The process of technological developments such as construction of a cathedral", he told the times in an interview 1990. "in the course of several hundred years, new people and each places a block on the old foundations, everyone say I built a cathedral." "If you are not careful, that you are going to believe that you may not the most important part of con."
Baran's wife since 1955 died 2007 Evelyn. Atherton, California, he is by his son, and three grandchildren survived.