BRIEF SUMMARY OF FIRSTS, KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR LEN KLEINROCK
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First to develop the underlying principles of packet switching, the communications technology of the Internet (this was a decade before the Internet was founded).
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Known as the Father of Modern Data Networking.
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Published the first paper on Packet Switching Theory, "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" (July, 1961).
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Published the first book on packet switching ("Communications Nets", 1964).
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Laid out some of the key functional specifications for the ARPANET (predecessor to the Internet).
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Directed the first installation of the Internet in September, 1969.
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Supervised the first message transmission on the Arpanet in October, 1969; this was the first murmerings of what later exploded into the Internet.
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Established and ran the network's Network Measurement Center for its entire life.
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Published the classic text on queueing theory, the key analytical tool for describing data networks.
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Published the first book describing the workings of the Internet.
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Organized and chaired the first Symposium commemorating the full life of the ARPANET in August 1989, its 20th and final anniversary.
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Produced 41 Ph.D. students who form a brain trust of networking expertise both in the USA and internationally.
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Led the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) committee which laid out the framework in 1988 for today's emerging Gigabit networks.
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Founding member of the Cross-Industrial Working Team to promote the development of the National Information Infrastructure.
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Led the National Research Council's CSTB committee which produced the 1994 report "Realizing the Information Future; The Internet and Beyond"; this lays out the fundamental vision for the National Information Infrastructure.
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Currently leading the research and development movement in Nomadic Computing and Communications.
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