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Donald Davies was born on 7 June, 1924

British computer scientist who developed the concept of packet switching while working for the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). He is regarded as one of the “fathers of the Internet“.

Polish-American scientist Paul Baran also developed packet switched computer networking independently of Davies.