TechWeek Europe:

Little known to the general public, Louis Pouzin is a real IT legend. Back in 
1971, the French government tasked him with designing Cyclade, the French 
answer to the American ArpaNet.

Later, Pouzin and his team created the datagram protocol which Vinton Cerf 
and Robert Kahn used as the basis for the Internet\u2019s TCP/IP protocol, in 
1974. In just a few years, the new communication standard would be adapted by 
the majority of computer networks in the world.

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Professor Andrew A Adams                      [log in to unmask]
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/