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Jun 07, 1924 Treorchy, Wales, United Kingdom Died on 28 May 2000 (aged 75)
Welsh computer scientist
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About Donald Davies
- Donald Watts Davies, (7 June 1924 – 28 May 2000) was a Welsh computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
- In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communications in computer networks worldwide, and implemented it in the NPL network.
- This was independent of the work of Paul Baran in the United States who had a similar idea in the early 1960s.
- The ARPANET project, a precursor to the Internet, credited Davies for his influence.
