Timeline for Davies' work on "packet switching"

Donald W. Davies: Timeline of 'packet switching' Paul Baran papers introduce the system concept and requirements for his distributed communication network Davies proposes "store and forward" system for short messages in a note. The note seems now to be a description of today's e-mail interfaces Davies forecast today's "killer app" for his new communication service Davies introduces the term "packet" and proposes the development of a new kind of national communication network Davies' team presents paper at ACM Gatlinberg Conference describing network proposal Davies receives John Player Award from British Computer Society for his work on "packet switching"

 

Donald Davies, a British network pioneer, is one of the co-inventors of the packet-switched network paradigm. The Internet services we take for granted, was predicted by Davies in Dec. 1965. He had a true vision of present day Internet. Davies' work at the UK's National Physical Laboratory explored packet switching , but he could not convince the British to fund a wide area network experiment. His papers, however, did show the importance of packet switching for computer communication.

We have prepared two documents which will help you gain more information on the development of "packet switching" and Davies' contribution to this field:

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