UCLA
Computer Science Department
3732G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, California 90095
Phone (310) 825-2543
Fax (310) 825-7578
E-mail: lk@cs.ucla.edu
Dr.
Leonard Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the
technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at
MIT. In this effort,
he developed the mathematical theory of data networks. This was a decade
before the birth of the Internet which occurred when his host computer
at UCLA became the
first node of the Internet in September 1969. He wrote the first paper
and published the first book on the subject; he also directed the
transmission of the first message to pass over the Internet. He was
also responsible for setting up and running the Internet measurement
facility that stressed the early Internet to establish its performance
limits and to evaluate its performance and behavior. In these efforts,
he laid the groundwork and established the discipline by which future
generations of engineers would seek to model, measure and evaluate the
computer and communication systems they were building. He was
listed by the Los
Angeles Times in 1999 as among the "50 People Who Most Influenced
Business This Century".
Dr. Kleinrock received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1963 and has served as a professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles since then, serving as chairman of the department from 1991-1995. He received his BEE degree from CCNY in 1957. He has also received honorary degrees from CCNY (1997), the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2000), the University of Bologna (2005), and Politecnico di Torino (2005). He has published more than 240 papers and authored six books on a wide array of subjects including queueing theory, packet switching networks, packet radio networks, local area networks, broadband networks, gigabit networks and nomadic computing.
Dr. Kleinrock is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 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, he is the recipient of the CCNY Townsend Harris Medal, the CCNY Electrical Engineering Award, the Marconi Award, the L.M. Ericsson Prize, the NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize, the Okawa Prize, the IEEE Internet Millennium Award, the UCLA Outstanding Teacher Award, the Lanchester Prize, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Sigma Xi Monie Ferst Award, the INFORMS Presidents Award, and the IEEE Harry Goode Award.