of entrepreneurial activity." National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007) National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2007) UCLA Engineering Alumnus of the Year (2009) Internet Hall of Fame (2012) See also Internet pioneers References External links A 44-page transcript in which Baran describes his working environment at RAND, his initial interest in survivable communications, the evolution of his plan for distributed networks, the objections he received, and the writing and distribution of his eleven-volume work, On Distributed Communications. Baran discusses his interaction with the group at ARPA who were responsible for the later development of the ARPANET. This describes Paul Baran's development of packet switching and its application to wireless computing. A transcript of Baran's keynote address at the Countdown to Technology 2000 Winter Conference that includes a photo. Paul Baran named 1991 Marconi Fellow Publications by Paul Baran RAND Corporation 1926 births 2011 deaths American telecommunications industry businesspeople American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent American people of Polish-Jewish descent Belarusian Jews Drexel University alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Internet pioneers Packets (information technology) People from Grodno People from Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939) National Medal of Technology recipients RAND Corporation people Polish emigrants to the United States UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni 20th-century American inventors