UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock on packet switching, early Internet

Internet pioneer and UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock discusses the childhood event that led to his career in engineering, his research on packet switching, and the process of bringing the early Internet to life.

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[pleaseflamemessageme]

This man is brilliant.

[Andyw43]

This man invented the internet, he should be given a nobel peace prize.

[jhamien920]

Thanks UCLA for inventing the internet.

[rc796]

In 2007 the inventors of packet switching were inducted into the US Inventors

Hall of Fame. The citation is unequivocal, as the recipients have to be named

as inventor(s) on a US patent. In the case of packet switching the two inductees

are Paul Baran20 and Donald Watts Davies,21 for their Digital Packet Switching

invention.

[rc796]

Kleinrock didn't invent the Internet any more than Leonardo Da Vinci invented a working aeroplane. He basically wrote a dissertation on a theory that had not yet been created. It was Davies who invented packet switching... see my other post for more info. Kleinrock wants all the credit for himself at the expense of Donald Davies & Paul Baran.

[rc796]

Kleirock forgets to acknowledge his counterparts: Donald Watts Davies, not only coined the term 'packet switching', but invented the first working packet switching network in UK. Paul Baran at RAND 1st proposed a nationwide network in the US. Baron took his idea to the Air Force; it was a failure when the Defense Communication Agency got control and screwed up so Baran was unable to complete the project. It was Davies' idea and experiments at NPL that worked, and was later developed by ARPANet

[Robmeisterflex]

This guy is a King.

Hat off to you sir.

[LegoLoverFilms]

Imagine he was too shy to enter the electronics store. Imagine the proprietor was on lunch break. His mom was too busy to take him. The store was sold out of variable capacitors. The subway system was broken. The comic didn't include the text description. He didn't like comic books. If any of that happened, the internet would not be here.

And if I was that proprietor and I knew what would happen, I'd be overly excited I lead Leonard Kleinrock to inventing the Internet.

[MrBartusX]

@Andyw43 lol, wtf... Why would they give him the peace prize?

[satmuts]

Thanks a lot man , thanks for this great job , with out you we will never be here Today ,

[eb1zzle]

I never heard of this man until today, but he deserves a special place in history for his achievements. Imagine being the one to invent something that changes the world in the way the Internet has. Then actually living long enough to see it succeed with explosive success... a righteous legacy and the story of a true pioneer.