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Jun 5, 2024 · Lawrence G. Roberts is best known for his work on the development of the ARPANET, a key predecessor to the internet and the first major network built on the principle of packet switching, and later as a pioneer of commercial packet switching with his roles in Telenet and the widely deployed X.25 protocol.
1 day ago · Lawrence G. "Larry" Roberts (1937–2018) was an American computer scientist. After earning his PhD in electrical engineering from MIT in 1963, Roberts continued to work at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory where in 1965 he connected Lincoln Lab's TX-2 computer to the SDC Q-32 computer in Santa Monica.
Jun 22, 2024 · Bringing in Larry Roberts from MIT in January 1967, he initiated a project to build such a network. Roberts and Thomas Merrill had been researching computer time-sharing over wide area networks (WANs). Wide area networks emerged during the late 1950s and became established during the 1960s.
6 days ago · In the epilogue to the memoir Avoid Boring People, Watson alternately attacks and defends former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers, who stepped down in 2006 due in part to his remarks about women and science.
Jun 11, 2024 · A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) says that they are the first to use a femtosecond laser to create and “annihilate” qubits on demand, and with precision, by doping silicon with hydrogen.
Jun 8, 2024 · Lawrence Roberts went on to become the first person to connect two computers (Science+MediaMuseum 2020). Packet switching is a method of splitting and sending data, and it is the basis on which the internet works today.
Jun 14, 2024 · Leonard Kleinrock, born June 13, 1934, is an American computer scientist and professor at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Kleinrock was born in New York City and attended the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, graduating in 1951.
