A Paternity Dispute Divides Net Pioneers (Published 2001)
Credit for packet switching, technology that breaks all data that travels over Internet into discrete bundles that are the sent along various paths around the network and reassembled at their final destination, is being disputed; Leonard Kleinrock, computer scientist at University of California at Los Angeles, is staking his claim to having been father of packet switching; until Kleinrock began making his case prominently, two others--Donald Davies, British expert on computer security, and Paul Baran, formerly of Rand Corp--were widely recognized as packet switching's inventors; photos of Kleinrock and Davies (L)
