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Leonard Kleinrock, PhD
Professor of Computer Sciences, UCLA
Chairman, Nomadix
Founder of Packet Switch Technology
Dr. Kleinrock is considered a father of the Internet, having laid down the basic principles of packet switching a decade before his Host computer at UCLA became the first node ever to connect to the Internet in September 1969. Dr. Kleinrock received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1963, serves as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and as a Nomadix founder. He has published over 225 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 and nomadic computing.
Dr. Kleinrock is a UCLA principal investigator for DARPA, where he is at the forefront of efforts to create infrastructures necessary to enable nomadic computing.
Dr. Kleinrock is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE fellow, an ACM fellow, and a founding member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. Among his many honors, Dr. Kleinrock is the recipient of the C.C.N.Y. Townsend Harris Medal, the Marconi Award, the Ericsson Prize, the UCLA Outstanding Teacher Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Sigma XI Monie Ferst Award, the IEEE Harry Goode Award and the IEEE Millennium Internet Award.
Dr. Kleinrock recently received the Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the engineering profession's most prestigious prize. A more detailed description of Dr. Kleinrock's personal history and biography can be read on his home page.