Leonard Kleinrock

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Leonard Kleinrock at a meeting of the Internet Hall of Fame members in 2012

Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934 in New York City ) is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist who made fundamental contributions to the theory of computer networks and the Internet .

Education and life

Kleinrock attended Bronx High School of Science (graduated in 1951) and studied electrical engineering at City College of New York (Bachelor’s degree 1957) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his master’s degree in 1959 and received his PhD in 1963 under Edward Arthurs (Message Delay in Communication Nets with Storage). He then went to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he became a professor (Henry Samueli School of Engineering) and headed the computer science faculty from 1991 to 1995.

In 2007 he received the National Medal of Science for his, as recognized at the award ceremony, fundamental contributions to the mathematical theory of computer networks and the specification of packet switching, the basis of Internet technology . His contribution to this goes back to his dissertation from 1962. He applied these ideas in the development of the ARPANET , whose first nodes in the form of Interface Message Processors (IMP) were in 1969 at Kleinrock at UCLA and Douglas Engelbart at SRI International . In the 1970s he and his student Farouk Kamoun developed ideas for hierarchical routing, which is also used in Internet technology . In 1988 he was chairman of a committee whose report Toward a National Research Network for the US Congress was important for the development of the Internet in the US. In 1968 he co-founded the Linkabit company (with Andrew J. Viterbi ) and its first president and co-founder of Nomadix Inc. and founder of TTI / Vanguard.

Awards and honors

Kleinrock was a Guggenheim Fellow and is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds multiple honorary doctorates.

Fonts

  • Message Delay in Communication Nets with Storage , Dissertation, PDF file
  • Communication Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Design , McGraw-Hill, 1964, Dover 2007.
  • Queuing Systems , Vol. 1 (Theory), Wiley 1975, Vol. 2 (Computer Applications), Wiley 1976.
  • with Richard Gail: Queuing Systems- Problems and Solutions , Wiley 1996.
  • with Farouk Kamoun: Hierarchical Routing for Large Networks, Performance Evaluation and Optimization. In: Computer Networks , Vol. 1, No. 3, 1977, pages 155-174.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frederick W. Lanchester Prize. (No longer available online.) Informs.org ( Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ), archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.informs.org
personal data
SURNAME Kleinrock, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City