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Donald Davies

British computer scientist
Also known as: Donald Watts Davies
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Donald Davies (born June 7, 1924, Treorchy, Glamorgan, Wales—died May 28, 2000, Esher, Surrey, England) was a British computer scientist and inventor of packet switching, along with American electrical engineer Paul Baran. Davies studied at Imperial College in London, obtaining degrees in physics (B.Sc., 1943) and mathematics (B.Sc., 1947). In 1947 he went to work on the design of the Automatic Computing Engine under Alan Turing at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in suburban Teddington,...

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