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Kleinrock video on DVD
"The History of the Internet and its Flexible Future"

In his commemorative 1.5 hour address at IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 50th Anniversary, Leonard Kleinrock walks you through the history of the Internet. He vividly illustrates his early vision of the Internet and the vision for it in the future. His speech draws on his involvement with the Internet from its beginnings and from his developing the basic principles of packet switching, which underpins the Internet, to hosting the first Internet node in September 1969, and publishing the first paper and book on the subject...
 

A special video presentation from the 50th anniversary of IEEE GLOBECOM!




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LEONARD KLEINROCK [F’73] (lk@cs.ucla.edu) received his B.E.E. from the City College of New York (CCNY) in 1957, his M.S. from MIT in 1959, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1963. He created the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. He has served as a professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, serving as chairman of the department from 1991 to 1995. He was listed by the Los Angeles Times in 1999 among the “50 People Who Most Influenced Business This Century.” He was also listed among the 33 most influential living Americans in the December 2006 Atlantic Monthly. He received honorary doctorates from CCNY in 1997, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2000, from the University of Bologna in 2005, from Politecnico di Turino in 2005, and from the University of Judaism in 2007. He was the first president and co-founder of Linkabit Corporation, the company that spawned numerous wireless spinoffs in San Diego, California. He was the first CEO and co-founder of Nomadix, Inc., one of the first firms that introduced nomadic computing technologies. He is also founder and chairman of TTI/Vanguard, an advanced technology forum organization based in Santa Monica,  California.

He has published approximately 250 papers and authored six books on a wide array of subjects including packet-switching networks, packet radio networks, local area networks, broadband networks, gigabit networks, nomadic computing, performance evaluation, and peer-to-peer networks.
During his tenure at UCLA, he has supervised the research of 46 Ph.D. students and numerous M.S. students. These former students now form a core group of the world’s most advanced networking experts. A number are full professors at leading universities, and many are associated with major research firms in the area of computer-communications.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an IEEE fellow, an ACM fellow, an INFORMS fellow, an IEC fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, and a founding member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. Among his many honors, he is the recipient of the L. M. Ericsson Prize, the NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize, the Marconi International Fellowship Award, the Okawa Prize, the IEEE Internet Millennium Award, the ORSA Lanchester Prize, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the NEC Computer and Communications Award, the Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award, the CCNY Townsend Harris Medal, the CCNY Electrical Engineering Award, the UCLA Outstanding Faculty Member Award, the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, the UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer, the INFORMS Presidents Award, the ICC Prize Paper Award, the IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award, and the IEEE Harry M. Goode Award.