About this user
I am an engineer and computer scientist, and a computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli
School of Engineering and Applied
Science, who made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking. I am also played an important role in the development of the ARPANET at UCLA.[3]
My most well-known and significant work is early work on queueing theory, which has applications in many fields, among them as a key mathematical background to packet switching, the basic technology behind the Internet. My initial contribution to this field was my doctoral thesis in 1962, published in book form in 1964; later published several of the standard works on the subject.
I am described this work as:
"Basically, what I did for my PhD research in 19611962 was to establish a mathematical theory of packet networks...."
graduated from the noted Bronx High School of Science in 1951, and received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree in 1957 from the City College of New York, and a master's degree and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in electrical engineering & computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 and 1963 respectively. He then joined the faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he remains to the present day; during 1991-1995 he served as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department there.
Kleinrock is also a member of the advisory board of TTI/Vanguard.
My theoretical work on hierarchical routing, done in the late 1970s with my then-student Farouk Kamoun, is now critical to the operation of today's worldwide Internet.
Age
77
Hometown
New York
Country
United States
Occupation
Professor
Companies
UCLA
Schools
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
