Leonard Kleinrock

Advisory Board
Chief Internet Architect

When my team and I helped to create this thing we call the internet today, we had a great vision for what it should be. It should be open, free, shared, trusted and easily accessible. Months before the internet came to life, l put out a press release describing a vision I had for what the internet would become; specifically, I said, “As of now, computer networks are still in their infancy. But as they grow up and become more sophisticated, we will probably see the spread of ‘computer utilities’ which, like present electric and telephone utilities, will service individual homes and offices across the country.”. So my vision at that time was that the Internet would be ubiquitous, always on, always available, anyone with any device could connect from any location at any time, and it would be invisible. Now our challenge, many decades later, is to realize that vision - the Mobby technology has a powerful approach to raising the level of trust in the Internet to that of a first class citizen of the Internet.

Biography
Distinguished Professor
UCLA
UCLA
Chief Internet Architect

Biography

Known as a father of the internet, Dr. Kleinrock pioneered the mathematical theory of packet networks which was the basis of the Internet. The Arpanet was launched in 1969 from his laboratory in UCLA's Boelter Hall Room 3420, now known as the "Birthplace of the Internet." He chaired the1988 National Research Council report upon which Al Gore based his 1991 High Performance Computing Act that upgraded U.S. computer network infrastructure. He is recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Science for fundamental mathematical contributions to Internet technology. Dr. Kleinrock has authored over 250 papers and supervised the research of over 50 PhD students.  He founded and is Director of The UCLA Connection Lab, leads the SGI Advisory Board and will assist SGI's new innovation as it improves the ecosystem he helped initially create.

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