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Leonard Kleinrock

Date of Birth 13-June-1934
Place of Birth Harlem
(New York City, Manhattan, United States of America, New York, New York metropolitan area)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Inventor, Computer Scientist, Professor
Leonard Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist. A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, he made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking. He also played an important role in the development of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, at UCLA. His most well-known and significant work is his early work on queueing theory, which has applications in many fields, among them as a key mathematical background to packet switching, one of the basic technologies behind the Internet. His initial contribution to this field was his doctoral thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, published in book form in 1964; he later published several of the standard works on the subject. He described this work as: "Basically, what I did for my PhD research in 1961–1962 was to establish a mathematical theory of packet networks..." His theoretical work on hierarchical routing, done in the late 1970s with his then-student Farouk Kamoun, is now critical to the operation of today's worldwide Internet.

Awards by Leonard Kleinrock

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2007


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For his fundamental contributions to the mathematical theory of modern data networks, and for the functional specification of packet switching, which is the foundation of Internet technology. His mentoring of generations of students has led to the commercialization of technologies that have transformed the world.)