What Does Leonard Kleinrock Mean?
Leonard Kleinrock is an American computer engineer who has made many important contributions to computer science, especially to the foundations of computer networking. He played a key role in the history of internet. In 1969, his host computer in his UCLA laboratory became the first internet node in history, and from there he directed the first message transmission to pass over the internet.
Techopedia Explains Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock was born on June 13th, 1934 in New York City. Graduating from Bronx High School of Science in 1951, he received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the city college of New York in 1957. He earned his master’s degree as well as a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science in 1958 and 1963 respectively from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He later joined the faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles. Between 1991 and 1995, he served as the Chairman of the computer science department at UCLA.
