Danny Cohen (December 9, 1937 to August 12, 2019) was an Israeli-American computer scientist specializing in computer networking. Involved in the ARPANET project, he helped develop various fundamental Internet applications and was one of the key figures behind the separation of TCP and IP, which allowed the later creation of UDP. He is also known for his 1980 paper On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace, which adopted the terminology of endianness for computing.
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Source Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW): Danny Cohen
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Danny Cohen co-developed this line-clipping algorithm with Ivan Sutherland in the early 1960s at Harvard.
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1. Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW): Danny Cohen
Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW)BiographyQuote, Biography
Danny Cohen was born on December 9th, 1937, in Haifa, Israel, then British Mandate for Palestine.
Cohen-Sutherland algorithm (Wikipedia)
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The algorithm was developed in 1967 during flight simulator work by Danny Cohen and Ivan Sutherland.
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