Danny Cohen (computer scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Danny Cohen (computer scientist)

Israeli internet pioneer (1937-2019)

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1937

Place of Birth: Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

Date of Death: 12-Aug-2019

Profession: computer scientist, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.
Cohen is probably best known for his 1980 paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" which adopted the terminology of endianness for computing (a term borrowed from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels).
Cohen has served on the computer science faculty at several universities and has worked in the private industry.