Dot Obits: Paul Baran
Well, maybe Paul Baran didn't invent the Internet exactly*, but his work on its forerunner, ARPANET, made it possible. Baran, 84, died yesterday at his home in Palo Alto, according to the New York Times.
While working at the RAND Corporation in the early Sixties, Baran outlined a method for dissembling information into "message blocks" in order…