Leonard Kleinrock (born in New York City, New York, United States, June 13, 1934, age 77 years) was a United States engineer and scientist known as the inventor of the internet or the father of the Internet. A professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Science, he made important contributions several areas of computer networks, especially for the theoretical side of computer networks. He is known for his contributions in the networking world. His most famous and significant is the theory of packet switching through the paper in 1959 and in 1961 on the exchange of packets in conjunction with the technology package is the forerunner of the Internet technology.
On October 29, 1969 he created one of the greatest inventions of the modern age before the Internet had inadvertently managed to break the digital code and make it as separate packages. Kleinrockpun Leonard is one of the pioneers of digital communication networks, and help build the ARPANET.
Kleinrock was born on June 13, 1934 in New York City, he graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1951 and he received his Bachelor of Engineering electrical and computer science in 1957 from the City College of New York. In 1959 and 1963, he earned his master's and doctoral (Ph.D.) in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After completing pendidian he later joined the faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Engineering and Applied Science where he worked there as a professor of computer science.
The first ARPANET message sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 pm, October 29, 1969 from boelter Hall 3420. He was guided by Kleinrock. Kline is transmitted from the SDS Sigma Computer University to Stanford. Two letters are typed on the keyboard LO at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and appears on the screen at the Stanford Research Institute, 314 miles away. The computer scientists intend to LOGIN, but the connection is lost just before G.
In 1988, Kleinrock was the chairman of the National Research Network for the U.S. Congress. This report is very influential and used to develop the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 that influential in the development of the Internet as it is known today. Funding of the bill are used in the development of a web browser Mosaic in 1993, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Today the internet technology present a multifunctional media. Communication via the Internet can be done interpesonal (eg e-mail and chat) or mass-eg mailing list. Internet is also able to attend in real time audio visual as in the conventional method with the application teleconference.
He has received many awards. Kleinrock was chosen to receive the prestigious award of the National of Science, a national scientific honor, from President George W. Bush at the White House on September 29, 2008. awarded the 2007 National Medal of Science in fundamental contribution to the mathematical theory of modern data networks, and for the functional specification of packet switching, which is the basis for next-generation Internet technology mentoring.
