Danny Cohen (engineer)

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Danny Cohen (* 9. December 1937 in Haifa , Mandatory Palestine ; † 12. August 2019 in Palo Alto , California , USA ) was from Israel originating computer and Internet -Pionier.

biography

Danny Cohen was born in Haifa in 1937. His father, David, immigrated from Russia to pre-state Israel. His mother, Dorit, came from Hungary. Danny Cohen was a member of the Zionist youth movement HaSchomer HaZa'ir and attended Hugim School in Haifa. His interest in computers was sparked by a newspaper article describing the computer as an electronic brain.

Cohen earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Technion in Haifa in 1963 . From 1965 to 1967 he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1967 he programmed the first interactive flight simulator. Together with Ivan Sutherland he developed the Cohen-Sutherland algorithm . At Sutherland at Harvard University , Cohen received his PhD in computer graphics in 1969 .

After several years at Harvard (until 1973) and the California Institute of Technology , Cohen went to the University of Southern California (USC) in 1976 , where he worked on the Network Voice Protocol, a forerunner of Voice over IP . In 1980 he started the MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service) project, an early Internet application for the distributed design of integrated circuits .

Also in 1980 he published his most famous essay On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace, with which he intervened in the dispute over the byte order in data transmissions on the Internet.

In the 1990s Cohen worked on various projects in the field of distributed interactive simulation . He designed a LAN system called ATOMIC, which resulted in Myrinet . In 1994, Cohen co-founded Myricom, a company marketing Myrinet. Other projects by Cohen include FastXchange for e-commerce and a digital library.

From 2001 Cohen worked for Sun Microsystems on fast communication over short distances. He continued to serve as an associate professor at the University of Southern California.

Cohen has served on various boards of the United States Department of Defense , the National Institutes of Health, and the National Research Council .

Cohen has received multiple awards for his achievements. In 2013, Google organized an event in honor of Cohen.

Danny Cohen's daughter Orly died in a traffic accident in 1993. It came from his first marriage to Schoschana Brauner. He leaves behind a son, David, from his second marriage to Delia Heilig.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. Katie Hafner: Danny Cohen, Who Helped Set the Stage for a Digital Era, Dies at 81. In: The New York Times , August 16, 2019 (English). Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  2. Israeli genius has died. In: Israelnetz .de. August 28, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .
  3. a b c d Danny Cohen on the Internet Hall of Fame website .
  4. ^ A b Michael V. Copeland: Danny Cohen Engineered the Internet to Take Flight . Wired article on Danny Cohen on his induction into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.
  5. On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace on the IETF website .
  6. Chris Crum: Google Honors Internet Pioneer Danny Cohen . WebProNews, April 23, 2013 (English).
  7. Israeli genius has died. In: Israelnetz .de. August 28, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .