Faculty Presentation

Professor Leonard Kleinrock is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

at UCLA. He developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology

underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT in the period from 1960-

1962.  The birth of the Internet occurred in his UCLA laboratory (3420 Boelter Hall)

when his Host computer became the first node of the Internet in September 1969

and it was from there that he directed the transmission of the first message to pass

over the Internet on October 29, 1969. 

Dr. Kleinrock received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1963. Since then, he has served as a

Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, serving

as Chairman of the department from 1991-1995. He received his BEE degree from

CCNY in 1957 and his MS degree from MIT in 1959. He is also the recipient of a

number of Honorary Doctorates. He was the first President and Co-founder of

Linkabit Corporation, the co-founder of Nomadix, Inc., and Founder and Chairman

of TTI/Vanguard, an advanced technology forum organization. He has published

over 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, intelligent software agents,

performance evaluation, peer-to-peer networks, network congestion control, and

blockchain technology. During his tenure at UCLA, Dr. Kleinrock has supervised the

research for over 50 Ph.D. students and numerous M.S. students. These former

students now form a core group of the world's most advanced networking experts.

Dr. Kleinrock is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of

the National Academy of Sciences, 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. He is recipient of the

2007 National Medal of Science, the L.M. Ericsson Prize, the NAE Charles Stark

Draper Prize, the Marconi International Fellowship Award, the Dan David Prize, the

Okawa Prize, the IEEE Internet Millennium Award, the ORSA Lanchester Prize, the

ACM SIGCOMM Award, the IEEE Computer Society Pioneer 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

Medal, the UCLA Outstanding Faculty Member Award, the UCLA Distinguished

Teaching Award, the UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer, the INFORMS President's

Award, the ICC Prize Paper Award, the IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award,

and the IEEE Harry M. Goode Award.

Source: https://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/index.html

Learn more about Professor Kleinrock on Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Kleinrock 

Internet Hall of Fame: https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/leonard-kleinrock 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonard-kleinrock-26b6605/