Danny Cohen, was a Myricom Fellow until he retired. At Myricom he worked on Myrinet, a cost-effective, high-performance (multi Gbps), packet-communication and switching technology that is widely used to interconnect clusters of computers.
Danny earned his BSc at the Technion (Israel) and his PhD at Harvard. Prior to founding Myricom, he was a researcher at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI), where he started and led several research projects, including Internet Concepts, realtime communication, realtime packet speech and packet video, ATOMIC, MOSIS, and FAST. The USC/ISI ATOMIC LAN, based on Caltech Mosaic components, was developed under ARPA sponsorship by Cohen and his research group, was the research prototype of Myrinet.
Danny has been on the Computer Science faculty at Harvard, Technion, and Caltech.
Danny participated in many advisory panels for DoD, NRC, and NIH. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Air Force (USAF/SAB). He worked on realtime distributed simulation under contracts from STRICOM and DMSO.
Danny is perhaps best known for his coining of the computer terms, Big Endian and Little Endian, in his landmark article, On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (COMPUTER, 1981), which borrows heavily from earlier work by Dr. Swift.
Danny is a commercial pilot (Single- and Multi-Engine Land & Single-Engine Sea) and a bona fide member of the International Flat Earth Research Society.
Danny's e-mail address is: DannyCohen@ieee.org. He lives in Pacific Palisades. To the envy of his biographer.