Donald Davies was a British computer scientist at the National Physical Laboratory who in the mid-1960s independently invented packet switching, the technique of breaking data into small, separately addressed packets for transmission across a shared network, and coined the term packet switching itself. His work was developed independently of, not derived from, the related research Paul Baran was carrying out around the same time in the United States, and Daviess NPL network was among the first practical demonstrations of the technique, later influencing the design of the ARPANET.
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AwardCommander of the Order of the British Empire 2 AwardNational Inventors Hall of Fame 2 AwardFellow of the Royal Society 2 AwardDistinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society 2 Donald Davies
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Why did Donald Davies call it a packet?
He picked a word that translated into other languages without compromise.
Davies chose the word packet after consulting with a linguist. He wanted a term that could be translated into languages other than English without compromise, so the name would carry across borders along with the technique of packet switching.
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Donald Watts Davies, (7 June 1924 - 28 May 2000) was a British computer scientist and Internet pioneer who was employed at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom.
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It was designed in 1983 by Donald Davies and David Clayden
Invented: Message Authenticator Algorithm, History section
It was designed in 1983 by Donald Davies and David Clayden
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