It is with much sadness that I forward this notice of the death of my predecessor as UK representative to IFIP TC6
Peter Radford
From: Huneke, Immo Sent: 01 June 2000 19:31 To: 'logica.comp@news.logica.com' Cc: 'logica.talk@news.logica.com' Subject: D.W. Davies, inventor of packet switching
Donald Davies: End Transmission
Posted by timothy [http://www.monkey.org/%7Etimothy] on Thursday June 01, @05:39AM
from the transition-states dept.
RalfM [mailto:ralf@muhlberger.com] writes: "D. W. Davies, landmark scientist, has passed away. He coined the term 'packet switching' and did lots of research on the whole gamut of networking and data transmission. Read about it here [http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/20000601/A31536-2000Jun1.html]."
Not many people can claim "I conceived the use of a purpose-designed network employing packet switching in which the stream of bits is broken up into short messages, or 'packets', that find their way individually to the destination, where they are reassembled into the original stream."
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