Donald Davies

Name: Donald Watts Davies

Born: June 7, 1924, in Treorchy, Wales

Death: May 28, 2000 (Age: 76)

Computer-related contributions

• Welsh computer scientist known as one of the inventors of packet switching computer networking, and originator of the term.
• He developed the Pilot ACE computer, which first worked in May 1950. A commercial spin-off, DEUCE was manufactured by English Electric Computers and became one of the best-selling machines of the 1950s.

Significant publications

• Communication Networks for Computers (1976).
• Computer Networks and Their Protocols (1979).
• Security for Computer Networks (1984).

Honors and awards

• Appointed a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (1975).
• Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society (2012).