Leonard Kleinrock
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS
COMPUTER SCIENCE
BH 3732G
Email: lk@cs.ucla.eduPhone: (310) 825-2543
Fax: (310) 825-7578
Websites
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Queueing theory
- Packet switching networks
- Packet radio networks
- Local area networks
- Broadband networks
- Nomadic computing
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Intelligent agents
- Cybersecurity and future internet
IN THE NEWS
- How the Internet Was Created by Government — Not Private — Innovation | Salon, January 2023
- Big Macs! Barbies! Rocket Ships! Porn Stars! 60 Ways L.A. Changed the World | Los Angeles Magazine, April 2022
- This Wild Video Maps the Entire Internet and Its Evolution Since 1997 | Singularity Hub, February 2021
- Your Internet is working. Thank these Cold War-era pioneers who designed it to handle almost anything | The Washington Post, April 2020
- Leonard Kleinrock & Vint Cerf on the Invention of the Web | Amanpour & Company, November 2019
- The Internet at 50: ‘We Didn’t See the Dark Side Emerging’ | New York Times, November 2019
- The Rising Threat of Digital Nationalism | Wall Street Journal, November 2019
- Opinion: 50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?, October 2019
- 'First Internet connection' made over military ARPANET 50 years ago | UPI, October 2019
- Internet Inventor Helps UCLA Celebrate its Centennial | Spectrum News, March 2020
- Happy birthday, dear internet: You’re 50 years old! | NBC TODAY, October 2019
- On the 50th anniversary of the birth of the internet, technologists balance optimism and warnings | NBC News, October 2019
- 50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420 | Fast Company, October 2019
- 50 Years Ago Today, the First Internet Message Was Dispatched from UCLA | Los Angeles magazine, October 2019
- The Room Where It Happened | Popular Mechanics, October 2019
- Stark warning from Tim Berners-Lee: the internet is being ‘subverted’ by hatred | Metro, October 2019
- 'We're losing our ability to think': Internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock on how his creation has transformed the world | The Telegraph, October 2019
- Lo and behold: The internet | UC Newsroom, October 2019
- How We Misremember the Internet’s Origins | New Republic , October 2019
- The internet is now 50 years old. The first online message? It was a typo | USA Today, October 2019
- On the 50th anniversary of the birth of the internet, technologists balance optimism and warnings | NBC News, October 2019
- Here's the Internet's 'Birth Certificate' From 50 Years Ago Today | Gizmodo, October 2019
- The internet was born 50 years ago with a nonsense message | CNET, October 2019
- Happy birthday, dear internet: You’re 50 years old! | Today , October 2019
- 50 years ago today, the Internet was born. Sort of | ArsTechnica, October 2019
- As internet turns 50, more risks and possibilities emerge | San Francisco Chronicle, October 2019
- Welcome to Year 50 of the Information Age | Wired, October 2019
- An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock | Communications of the ACM, October 2019
- The First 50 Years of Living Online: ARPANET and Internet | Computer History Museum, October 2019
- The internet was supposed to be a utopia. 50 years on, what happened? | New Scientist, October 2019
- And 'Lo!' - How the internet was born | BBC, October 2019
- Exclusive: Internet pioneer Kleinrock returns to fix what ails the internet | ZDNet, October 2019
- 50 years of the Internet: The invention of Leonard Kleinrock | KXAN36News, October 2019
- How the internet was born in a tiny basement 50 years ago today | The Telegraph, July 2019
- The story behind the birth of the internet on the third floor of Boelter Hall | Daily Bruin, March 2019
- Fifty years of the internet: What we learned, and where will we go next? | Tech Crunch, March 2019
- 50 years after internet conception, dark side stirs fear | AFP, March 2019
EDUCATION
PhD (1963) MIT
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Computer History Museum Fellow
- NAI Fellow
- Key To Los Angeles
- AAAS
- IEEE Fellow
- ACM Fellow
- L.M. Ericsson Prize
- NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize
- UCLA Medal