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Opinion: 50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?
Leonard Kleinrock, a distinguished professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering writes an op-ed on how the internet can return to principles that it is “ethical, open, trusted, free, shared.”
Los Angeles Times

First Internet connection’ made over military ARPANET 50 years ago
Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of a milestone event that helped shape the modern Internet — the first-ever computer linkup and the first electronic message sent over the U.S. Defense Department system, known then as ARPANET.
UPI

Happy birthday, dear internet: You’re 50 years old!
In the latest installment of “Mr. Smith Goes To…”, NBC’s Harry Smith joins TODAY with a special essay for a special occasion: the 50th anniversary of the internet. It’s come a long way since its humble origins at UCLA, when a network of primitive computers crashed before a simple message could be typed. The TODAY anchors talk about things the internet has made obsolete, like encyclopedias, phone books and beepers.
NBC TODAY

On the 50th anniversary of the birth of the internet, technologists balance optimism and warnings
“I predict that the internet will evolve into a pervasive global nervous system,” Leonard Kleinrock, Internet Hall of Fame member and professor of computer science at UCLA, told Pew. “The internet will be everywhere, available on a continuous basis, and will be invisible in the sense that it will disappear into the infrastructure, just as electricity is, in many ways, invisible.”
NBC News

50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420
Here’s the story of the creation of ARPANET, the groundbreaking precursor to the internet—as told by the people who were there.
Fast Company

The story behind the birth of the internet on the third floor of Boelter Hall
The Daily Bruin’s feature on the Internet’s 50th anniversary includes interviews with Kleinrock, alumnus Charley Kline, who was part of Kleinrock’s research group, and Professor George Varghese.
Daily Bruin

This man sent the first online message 50 years ago. He’s since seen the web’s dark side emerge
“The idea of the network was you could sit at one computer, log on through the network to a remote computer and use its services there,” Leonard Kleinrock, distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA, told The Current’s interim host Laura Lynch.
CBC The Current

50 Years Ago Today, the First Internet Message Was Dispatched from UCLA
The world wide web wouldn’t be possible without ARPANET, a government-funded research effort launched at UCLA in 1969. Leonard Kleinrock, a professor of computer science at the university and one of the “fathers of the internet,” takes us back to 3420 Boelter Hall and the day interconnectivity changed forever.
Los Angeles magazine

50 years after internet conception, dark side stirs fear
As UCLA marks the anniversary, Kleinrock is opening a new lab devoted to all things related to the internet — particularly mitigating some of its unintended consequences on the internet which is now used by some four billion people worldwide.
AFP

The Room Where It Happened
modern internet. The message didn’t go well. The programmer, Charley Kline, got halfway through the word login before the program crashed. It wasn’t a great start.
Popular Mechanics

互聯網50周年 誕生地洛加大歡慶
50th anniversary of the birth of the internet celebration in Los Angeles
Sing Tao Daily

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“The biomaterials field is essential” for China’s aging population – Prof. Zhen Gu
Nature
March 20, 2019

Prof. Gu’s team is enhancing revolutionary CAR T-cell therapy to fight solid tumors
ScienceDaily
March 27, 2019

Using EVs to power homes? Prof. Rajit Gadh says to modify consumer behavior first
Fast Company
March 08, 2019

“Data is profoundly dumb about causality,” claims Prof. Judea Pearl
Fortune
March 19, 2019

Prof. Chan Joshi discusses plasma wakefield acceleration, developed at UCLA in 1979
Symmetry Magazine
March 14, 2019

Prof. Leonard Kleinrock pens op-ed on 50 years of the internet: What have we learned?
TechCrunch
March 18, 2019

Frank Buckley interviews Prof. Kleinrock on the anniversary of the internet
KTLA-5 Los Angeles
March 09, 2019

Prof. Jonathan Stewart comments on Shake Alert LA, earthquake app for LA residents
CGTN America
March 13, 2019

‘The Big Bang Theory’ doubles its support for UCLA students, including engineering student Mia Reyes
UCLA Newsroom
March 08, 2019

Prof. John Villasenor discusses using algorithm-based risk assessment in sentencing
Brookings Institution
March 21, 2019

Microsoft’s Anupam Sharma shares why he enrolled in our online program
U.S. News & World Report
February 27, 2019

LA’s many earthquake hotspots are discussed by Prof. Jonathan Stewart
BBC World Service “Science in Action”
February 14, 2019

UCLA’s Jane Margolis and Linda Sax research gender imbalance in STEM
The New York Times Magazine
February 13, 2019

Profs. Xiangfeng Duan and Yu Huang’s new aerogel is lighter and hardier
Science
February 15, 2019

UCLA electrical engineers are building computers with 40 GPUs on a single wafer
IEEE Spectrum
January 31, 2019

Monetary losses will not derail the EV revolution explains Prof. Rajit Gadh
Fair.com
February 14, 2019

Alum Shelby Jacobs recognized as one of NASA’s ‘hidden figures’
The San Diego Union-Tribune
January 01, 2019

Prof. John Villasenor tackles policy, technology, and legal issues of altered videos
The Brookings Institution
February 01, 2019

Sandwiched between Sesame Street and Tic Tac, the internet also turns 50
Insider
February 08, 2019

A score of 97/100 puts UCLA Samueli’s online masters program at the top
U.S. News & World Report
January 2019

Can wastewater fight climate change? [Prof. Michael Stenstrom]
WIRED
January 23, 2019

A sense of ‘touch’ for robotic surgery [Prof. Robert Candler]
R&D Magazine
January 24, 2019

Artificial intelligence and bias: Four challenges [Prof. John Villasenor]
Brookings Institution
January 03, 2019

Are we safer 25 years after the Northridge earthquake? [Prof. John Wallace]
Los Angeles Daily News (Also in Orange County Register, Press-Enterprise)
January 17, 2019

First early-warning earthquake app for Los Angeles [Prof. Scott Brandenberg]
NPR / KJZZ Arizona
January 03, 2019

Mapping new earthquake faults in Southern California [Prof. Jonathan Stewart]
Curbed LA
January 17, 2019

How liquefaction impacts underground tunnels [Prof. Stewart]
Curbed LA
January 16, 2019

The vulnerability of skyscrapers during earthquakes [Prof. Tom Sabol]
Curbed LA
January 17, 2019

Uber VP Jason Droege discusses entrepreneurial career in speaker series
UCLA Samueli Newsroom
January 24, 2019

NHR3: UCLA Samueli debuts new multi-institution hazard research center
UCLA Samueli Newsroom
January 22, 2019

Prof. Achuta Kadambi named to Forbes 30 under 30
Forbes
January 2019

Prof. Zhen Gu developed a gel to stop cancer after surgery
New Scientist
December 10, 2018

Prof. Yvonne Chen is taking a multidisciplinary approach to cell engineering
Nature
December 05, 2019

AI pioneer Prof. Judea Pearl’s “The Book of Why” is one of the best science books of 2018
Science Friday
December 07, 2019

When the levee breaks: “The threat is real, and the science refutes those who would deny it.”–Prof. Jonathan Stewart
Temblor
November 16, 2019

UCLA Samueli will offer first-ever blockchain programming class
Daily Bruin
December 12, 2019

Prof. Yang Yang discusses perovskite solar cells for commercial applications
Nature Communications
December 10, 2019

Eight UCLA Samueli-affiliated professors named to ‘highly cited’ list
UCLA Samueli Newsroom
December 07, 2019

LA inventions: Prof. Leonard Kleinrock discusses Arpanet
Los Angeles Magazine
November 27, 2019

Prof. Aydogan Ozcan elected to National Academy of Inventors
UCLA Newsroom
December 11, 2019

Prof. Zhen Gu developed a gel to stop cancer after surgery
New Scientist
December 10, 2018

Prof. Yvonne Chen is taking a multidisciplinary approach to cell engineering
Nature
December 05, 2018

AI pioneer Prof. Judea Pearl’s “The Book of Why” is one of the best science books of 2018
Science Friday
December 07, 2018

When the levee breaks: “The threat is real, and the science refutes those who would deny it.”–Prof. Jonathan Stewart
Temblor
November 16, 2018

UCLA Samueli will offer first-ever blockchain programming class
Daily Bruin
December 12, 2018

Prof. Yang Yang discusses perovskite solar cells for commercial applications
Nature Communications
December 10, 2018

LA inventions: Prof. Leonard Kleinrock discusses Arpanet
Los Angeles Magazine
November 27, 2018

Prof. Aydogan Ozcan elected to National Academy of Inventors
UCLA Newsroom
December 12, 2018