Danny Cohen | |
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![]() Danny Cohen in 2009 | |
Born | |
Died | August 12, 2019 Palo Alto, California, U.S. | (aged 81)
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 |
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.[1][2]
Cohen is probably now best known for his 1980 paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"[3] 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 private industry.
...which bit should travel first, the bit from the little end of the word, or the bit from the big end of the word? The followers of the former approach are called the Little-Endians, and the followers of the latter are called the Big-Endians.Also published at IEEE Computer, October 1981 issue.
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