Leonard Kleinrock

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Leonard Kleinrock is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer best known for his foundational work on packet-switching theory that underpinned the development of the ARPANET and the modern Internet.

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instanceOf Internet pioneer
computer scientist
engineer
human
academicDegree Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
Master of Science
PhD
awardReceived Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering
surface form: Charles Stark Draper Prize

IEEE Medal of Honor
Marconi Prize
National Medal of Science
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1934-06-13
doctoralAdvisor Claude Shannon
Y. W. Lee
educatedAt City College of New York
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
employer University of California, Los Angeles
familyName Leonard Kleinrock self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kleinrock
fieldOfWork computer networking
computer science
packet switching
queueing theory
givenName Leonard
influenced design of packet-switched networks
development of ARPANET
knownFor contributions to ARPANET
contributions to the development of the Internet
foundational work on packet-switching theory
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Sciences
name Leonard Kleinrock self-link
nationality American
notableWork Communication Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Delay
early theoretical work on packet switching
queueing-theoretic analysis of communication networks
placeOfBirth New York
New York City
United States of America
positionHeld distinguished professor
professor of computer science
residence Los Angeles
sexOrGender male
workLocation California, United States
surface form: California

Los Angeles
United States of America

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ARPANET hasKeyPerson Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock name Leonard Kleinrock self-link
Leonard Kleinrock familyName Leonard Kleinrock self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kleinrock
Network Working Group notableMember Leonard Kleinrock
SIGCOMM Award notableRecipient Leonard Kleinrock
Marconi Society hasNotableAwardRecipient Leonard Kleinrock
Communication Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Delay author Leonard Kleinrock
this entity surface form: L. Kleinrock
Y. W. Lee notableStudent Leonard Kleinrock
Y. W. Lee doctoralAdvisorOf Leonard Kleinrock
Jeffrey P. Buzen hasAcademicAdvisor Leonard Kleinrock
Jean Walrand hasAcademicAdvisor Leonard Kleinrock