Leonard Kleinrock Essay

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Compared to fifty years ago, people today are equipped with advanced technology. One of the advanced technologies is the internet. Thanks the internet, it creates easier access to information and communications via email. The internet would not have existed if it was not for Leonard Kleinrock. Kleinrock was the one that initiated the idea of an internet and how it can improve communication between users. When thinking of the idea of the development of the internet, I believe that the initial idea, the original source is one of the most important key points. Leonard Kleinrock grew up in New York and worked as an electronics technician/engineer in order to support his family while juggling college classes. After five and a half years, he graduated from his evening college classes with a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering and in 1958; he was able to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Electrical Engineering Department with a full scholarship. At MIT, he found that the vast majority of his classmates were doing their Ph.D. research on the Information Theory. Instead of doing what his classmates were doing, Kleinrock decided that he would research data networks (a subject not well known back then) In May 1961, “he submitted a Ph.D. proposal entitled, "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" to study data networks”(History) which led to the idea and development of the internet. In 1962, Kleinrock completed his Ph.D. research and it was published later in 1964 as an MIT book named “Communication Nets," with his main idea that a “wide area digital communication network” was possible (IEE). Many of Kleinrock's initial ideas came from brainstorming about the best way for students and researchers at MIT and the affiliated Lincoln Laboratories to most efficiently share computer time. He quoted how "computers burst data, they transmit then

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