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Larry Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency , Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American ...
Lawrence Roberts (born December 21, 1937, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.—died December 26, 2018, Redwood City, California) was an American computer scientist who supervised the construction of the ARPANET, a computer network that was a precursor to the Internet.
Dr. Roberts designed and managed the first packet network, the ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet). At that time, in 1967, Dr. Roberts became the Chief Scientist of ARPA taking on the task of designing, funding, and managing the radically new communications network concept of packet switching.
Dec 30, 2018 · Dr. Roberts insisted that engineers look for practical uses for the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet. Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images. By Katie Hafner. Dec. 30, 2018. In late 1966, a...
Lawrence Roberts, the first person to connect two computers, was responsible for developing computer networks at ARPA, working with scientist Leonard Kleinrock.
Apr 27, 2017 · Larry Roberts (1937–2018) was honored as a CHM Fellow in 2017 for his seminal contributions to the evolution of our connected world. Following his early work in computer graphics and networking he was chief architect of the ARPANET, the US Department of Defense network that was a key building block of the later Internet.
Jan 2, 2019 · Lawrence Roberts, acknowledged as the designer of ARPANET, the precursor of today's internet, passed away on Dec. 26 in his home in Redwood City, Calif. Roberts, 81, died of a heart attack ...
