Donald Watts Davies

Donald Watts Davies (1924 - 2000)

Co-inventor of "packet switching" - a technology that splits communication data between computers into chunks sent separately so as to minimize the risk of network congestion.

Donald Watts Davies Pingsta HOF Medal

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