[ih] Paul Baran
Guy Almes
galmes at tamu.edu
Mon Mar 28 07:18:27 PDT 2011
A friend made me aware, this morning, of the death of Paul Baran (cf.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html>). There
were many interesting aspects of the NYT obituary.
One was this sentence: "He quickly developed an interest in the
survivability of communications systems in the event of a nuclear
attack, and spent the next several years at RAND working on a series of
13 papers — two of them classified — under contract to the Air Force,
titled, 'On Distributed Communications.' "
Does anyone know if those classified papers might be declassified, if
only to allow scholars to more fully assess Paul's contributions?
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