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Donald Davies (other)
Donald Davies (1924–2000) was a Welsh computer scientist. Donald Davies may also refer to: *Don Davies (born 1963), Canadian politician * Donald Davies (bishop) (1920–2011), Episcopal bishop *Donnie Davies Donnie Davies is a fictional character who is featured in a number of websites. Davies describes himself as an Anabaptist youth pastor, " reformed homosexual", and lead singer for the band Evening Service. Davies and the band were unknown until t ..., 2007 fictional American anti-homosexual campaigner See also * Donald Davis (other) {{hndis, Davies, Donald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Davies
Donald Watts Davies, (7 June 1924 – 28 May 2000) was a Welsh computer scientist and Internet pioneer who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). During 1965-67 he invented modern data communications, including packet switching, high-speed routers, layered communication protocols, hierarchical computer networks and the essence of the end-to-end principle, concepts that are used today in computer networks worldwide. He envisioned, in 1966, that there would be a "single network" for data and telephone communications. Davies proposed and studied a commercial national data network in the United Kingdom and designed and built the first implementation of packet switching in the local-area NPL network in 1966-69 to demonstrate the technology. Many of the wide-area packet-switched networks built in the late 1960s and 1970s were similar "in nearly all respects" to his original 1965 design. Davies' work influenced the ARPANET in the United States and the CYCLAD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Davies
Donald Vincent Davies (born January 16, 1963) is a Canadian politician who has served as the interim leader of the New Democratic Party since 2025 and as the Member of Parliament (Canada), member of Parliament for Vancouver Kingsway since 2008 Canadian federal election, 2008. Early life and career Davies was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, political science and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Alberta. He later worked as a researcher at the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. From 1989 to 1991, he was executive assistant for policy and communications to Ray Martin (politician), Ray Martin, leader of the Parliamentary opposition, official opposition of Alberta. Davies and his family moved to Vancouver in 1991. In 1992, he became the director of legal services for Teamsters Canada (Local 31), a position he held until his election to the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons in 2008. Political career Davies was first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Davies (bishop)
Archibald Donald Davies (April 15, 1920 – October 16, 2011) was an American Anglican bishop. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he became the fourth Episcopal bishop of Dallas and subsequently the first Episcopal bishop of Fort Worth. Davies was also a founder of the Evangelical and Catholic Mission, and later founded the Episcopal Missionary Church, after which he became Archbishop and Primate of the Christian Episcopal Church (XnEC). Formative years Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1920, Davies was a son of Archibald Davies, a designer of blast furnaces for that city's active steel industry. During the mid-1930s, Davies met his future wife, Mabel Myrtle Roberts (1920-2010) while they were both tenth grade students. They were subsequently married on Christmas Day in 1939. Education Davies graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1944, and earned his master's degree three years later from the Western Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian seminary in Pittsburgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donnie Davies
Donnie Davies is a fictional character who is featured in a number of websites. Davies describes himself as an Anabaptist youth pastor, " reformed homosexual", and lead singer for the band Evening Service. Davies and the band were unknown until the release of the music video for the anti-homosexuality song "The Bible Says" on the Internet in January 2007. Davies claims affiliation with the organization Love God's Way Ministries, which launched a website around the same time as the release of the video. He is also the founder and spokesman for the C.H.O.P.S. program. The acronym stands for "Changing Homosexuals into Ordinary People Sexually". C.H.O.P.S. is promoted through Love God's Way's website. His video was removed from YouTube.com without comment from the company and has been removed by Google. It has since been put back up on YouTube. Controversy Much of the initial controversy revolved around whether or not Davies is genuinely promoting an anti-gay agenda, or if this is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |