What about Donald Davies? (Score 1)

Hmmm...Kleinrock website claims Kleinrock invented packet switching... ...Not everyone agrees with that... "Donald Davies FRS died on May 28 2000. He was aged 75. A great man in his own right, he led, inspired and befriended many others including both of us. He was an Editorial Consultant to Smart Card News from the first issue in 1992. Through a long career in the Scientific Civil Service at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, and after "retirement", Donald made many outstanding contributions to the design and application of digital computers, data communications and computer network security. Internationally he is best known for the 1965 invention of Packet Data Switching. Within two years this self-routing method for messages was adopted by ARPA in the United States. ARPA's designers used it as the transport mechanism of the ARPANET. ARPANET has since evolved in to the Internet." The full article is at: http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:Y4rhKB1vHPQC: www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/d-davies.ht ml+inventor+packet+switching&hl=en&ie=UTF- 8