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Paul Baran was one of the developers of packet switched networks with Donald Davies. He was born in Poland in 1926, but his family moved to Boston, U.S.A. in 1928. He obtained his Masters degree in Engineering from UCLA in 1959 and began working for the RAND corporation in the same year.

The development of a communication network that would be robust to nuclear attach was important to U.S. defence strategy. Baran developed his ideas for packet switched networks as a solution.

Similar ideas were also being indpendently pursued by Donald Davies from the National Physical Laboratory in the U.K..

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