16 Facts About Leonard Kleinrock

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Leonard Kleinrock was born on June 13,1934 and is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer.

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Leonard Kleinrock is a long-tenured professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Leonard Kleinrock later published several of the standard works on the subject.

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Leonard Kleinrock supervised many graduate students whose later work on the communication protocols for internetworking led to the Internet protocol suite.

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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.

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Leonard Kleinrock later published several of the standard works on the subject.

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Leonard Kleinrock used the ARPANET for instant messaging from the US to Larry Roberts in England in 1973.

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Leonard Kleinrock published hundreds of research papers, which ultimately launched a new field of research on the theory and application of queuing theory to computer networks.

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Leonard Kleinrock disseminated his research and that of his students to wider audiences for academic and commercial use, and organized hundreds of commercial seminars presented by experts and pioneers in the US and internationally.

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In 1988, Leonard Kleinrock was the chairman of a group that presented the report Toward a National Research Network to the US Congress, concluding that "There is a clear and urgent need for a national research network".

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Leonard Kleinrock made several important contributions to the field of computer science, in particular to the theoretical foundations of data communication in computer networking.

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Leonard Kleinrock was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering.

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In 2012, Leonard Kleinrock was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

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Leonard Kleinrock was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

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In September 2014, Leonard Kleinrock was awarded the ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award at MobiCom 2014.

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Leonard Kleinrock has been granted with the 2014 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award "for his seminal contributions to the theory and practical development of the Internet," in the words of the jury's citation.