Danny Cohen (computer scientist)
Danny Cohen (December 9, 1937 – August 12, 2019) was an Israeli American computer scientist specializing in computer networking. He was involved in the ARPAnet project and helped develop various fundamental applications for the Internet. He was one of the key figures behind the separation of TCP and IP (early versions of TCP did not have a separate IP layer); this allowed the later creation of UDP.
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Danny Cohen in 2009 | |
| Born | December 9, 1937 |
| Died | August 12, 2019 (aged 81) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Other names | James A. Finnegan. |
| Alma mater | Technion, Harvard |
| Known for | Endianness, Being an Internet pioneer, first to run a visual flight simulator across the ARPANet |
| Awards | National Academy of Engineering member, IEEE Fellow, USAF Meritorious Civilian Service Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Graphics |
| Institutions | Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, Myricom, Sun Microsystems |
| Doctoral advisor | Ivan E. Sutherland |
Cohen is probably now best known for his 1980 paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" which adopted the terminology of endianness for computing (a term borrowed from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels). Cohen served on the computer science faculty at several universities and worked in the private industry.
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