Paolo, ecco cosa ha appena scritto Vint Cerf:
I think the NY Times did not intend to make that claim. Rather, it was aiming at the notion that the heart of Paul's work on distributed communication was based on the same ideas that informed the design of the ARPANET: packet switching. Paul's design for a resilient, packet voice command and control system was contemporary with Len Kleinrock's work on the mathematics of packet switching in his Ph.D. dissertation topic and with Donald Davies' work at the UK National Physical Laboratory. Davies coined the use of the term "packet" to refer to addressed chunks of data.
While the designers of the ARPANET did not apparently know of Paul's work until it was brought to their attention after the major design work was done, it is fair to say that all of these players, including Paul Baran, appreciated the power of this alternative to traditional circuit switching.
vint cerf
Paolo Brini wrote:
Paul Baran ha o non ha avuto per primo, o comunque in simultanea con altri, l'idea cardine del packet switching?
Ciao, Paolo