print email comment close Leonard Kleinrock's Home Page URL: http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu Description: UCLA professor "Dr. Leonard Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT." His official site features links to information about how the Internet was born, including his supervision of "the first message transmission on the Arpanet in October, 1969; this was the first murmurings of what later exploded into the Internet." Also includes biographical information and a bibliography. Extra Keywords notableengineers Library of Congress Subject Headings: Electric engineers Internet -- History Kleinrock, Leonard People Telecommunication LII Database Information: Record 8252 created by Maria Brandt on 08/30/2004 Last modification on 10/02/2004 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 05/29/2006 Published: 08/30/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8252