Professor Leonard Kleinrock

(1986) University of California at Los Angeles, USA

"To recognize his scholarly pioneering work in telecommunications particularly as applied to computer networks"

Presented by: HRH Prince Albert of Belgium at the Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Professor Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, and directed the transmission of the first message ever to pass over the Internet. He is a pioneer of digital network communications, and helped build the early ARPANET. Currently, Professor Kleinrock is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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