Advisory board
• John
Perry Barlow
• Gorden
Bell
• Peter
Cochrane
• Deborah
Estrin
• Eric Haseltine
• Michael
Hawley
• Alan
Kay
• Leonard
Kleinrock
• Douglas
Lenat
• Robert
Lucky
• Nicholas
Negroponte
• David
Reed |
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Dr.
Leonard Kleinrock is considered one of the fathers of the Internet,
having created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology
underpinning the Internet.
Dr. Kleinrock developed the mathematical
theory of data networks. His host computer at UCLA became the first
node of the Internet in September 1969. As a professor of computer
science at UCLA, Len has always worked on the frontier of new technology;
his interests include nomadic computing, and self-organizing, wireless,
peer-to-peer, and gigabit networks. Len is the chairman of TTI/Vanguard
and founder of the Technology Transfer Institute, Linkabit Corporation,
and Nomadix. He is a fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, INFORMS, and
the IEC, and a member of the National Academy
of Engineering and
the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His awards include
the 2007 National Medal of Science, the National Academy of Engineering's
Draper Prize, the L.M. Ericsson Prize, the Marconi International
Fellowship Award, the NEC Computers & Communication Foundation
Prize, and the Okawa Prize. Len has written six books, over 250
professional papers, and has supervised the research of 47 Ph.D.
graduates. |
