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Leonard Kleinrock Alive

Leonard Kleinrock
KindPerson
Born1934
StatusAlive
Fieldnetworking
Sourcewww.lk.cs.ucla.edu ↗

Published queueing theory for packet networks (1961) and supervised the first ARPANET node at UCLA.

Developed queueing theory for networks — the math packet switching needed — and ran the lab that sent the first ARPANET message (1969).\n\n'LO' was the first message — the system crashed trying to send 'LOGIN.'

Sources

  1. lk.cs.ucla.edu/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Kleinrock