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Leonard Kleinrock

American computer scientist (born 1934)

Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.²

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Born Jun 13, 1934.¹

About

Kleinrock made several important contributions to the field of computer science, in particular to the mathematical foundations of data communication in computer networking. He has received numerous prestigious awards.

In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theory to model delays in message switching networks in his Ph.D. thesis, published as a book in 1964. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he played an influential role in the development of the ARPANET. In the 1970s, he applied queueing theory to model and measure the performance of packet switching networks and published several of the standard works on the subject. He supervised graduate students who worked on the communication protocols for the ARPANET including students whose later work on internetworking and the Internet protocol suite led to the networking technology employed in the Internet. His theoretical work on hierarchical routing in the late 1970s with student Farouk Kamoun remains critical to the operation of the Internet today.

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Companies

NomadixFounder²⁷

Early life and education

1949 to 1951Bronx High School of Science high school diploma³
1951 to 1957City College of New York Bachelor of Electrical Engineering³
1963Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doctor of Philosophy; electrical engineering, computer science³

Leonard Kleinrock was born in New York City on June 13, 1934, to a Jewish family, and graduated from the noted Bronx High School of Science in 1951. He received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree in 1957 from the City College of New York, and a master's degree and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1959 and 1963 respectively. He then joined the faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he remains to the present day; during 1991–1995 he served as the chairman of the Computer Science Department there.

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Career

Occupation: patent inventor, computer scientist, professor, mathematician.^{6 7}

Date not recordedWorked at University of California, Los Angeles⁴
Date not recordedFounded Nomadix⁵

Personal life

BornJun 13, 1934, New York City⁸
CitizenshipUnited States^{9 10}
ResidenceLos Angeles, New York City¹¹

Awards

2014BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award^{12 25}
2012IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal^{12 23}
2012Internet Hall of Fame^{12 24}
2010Dan David Prize^{12 22}
2007National Medal of Science^{12 21}
2001Charles Stark Draper Prize^{12 20}
2001Okawa Prize^{12 19}
2000ACM Fellow^{12 18}
2000IEEE Internet Award^{12 17}
1996Harry H. Goode Memorial Award^{12 16}

More awards (4)

1990SIGCOMM Award^{12 15}
1986Marconi Prize^{12 14}
1976Frederick W. Lanchester Prize^{12 13}
Date not recordedGuggenheim Fellowship¹²

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