Davies, Donald Watts

▪ 2001

      British computer scientist (b. June 7, 1924, Treorchy, Wales—d. May 28, 2000, Esher, Eng.), helped lay the groundwork for the Internet in the 1960s when he devised a more efficient method of computer communications known as packet switching, a technique in which each data stream is broken into discrete, easily conveyed blocks, or packets, of data that can be electronically transmitted between remote computers and then reassembled into a coherent message.

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