Date: Tuesday, 14-Jan-97 21:39:22 GMT Server: NCSA/1.3 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Friday, 13-Sep-96 18:36:47 GMT Content-length: 10136 Leonard Kleinrock's Home Page

Leonard Kleinrock, Professor


lk@cs.ucla.edu

A Father of the Internet

Modeling and Performance Evaluation

  • Kleinrock's Key Modeling and Performance Evaluation Accomplishments

Queueing and All That

  • Kleinrock's Major Queueing and Other Accomplishments

Recent Presentations

Reports


FACTOIDS ON LEONARD KLEINROCK

Born
June 13, 1934 Manhattan
Married
Four children, five grandchildren
Education
Bronx High School of Science
1951
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, CCNY
1957
Masters in Electrical Engineering, MIT
1959
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, MIT
1963
Position
Professor
University of California at Los Angeles, Computer Science Dept.
1963-present
Chair
University of California at Los Angeles, Computer Science Dept.
1991-1995
Founder/President
Nomadix, LLC
an organization developing software and hardware products for nomadic computing
1995-present
Founder/Chair
Technology Transfer Institute
a Santa Monica based computer seminar and conference company
1976-present
Founder
Computer Channel Inc.
1988
Founder
Linkabit Corporation
1968
Staff Associate
MIT Lincoln Labs
1957-1963
Engineer
Photobell Company
1951-1957
Publications
6 books and 200 professional papers
Honors
L.M. Ericsson Prize
- The "Nobel Prize" in telecommunications,
presented by the King of Sweden
1982
12th Marconi International Fellowship Award
- Presented by Prince of Belgium
1986
National Academy of Engineering
- Elected as one of its youngest members
1980
Guggenheim Fellowship
1971
IEEE Fellow
1973
IEEE Harry M. Goode Award
1996
ACM SIGCOMM AWARD
1990
ORSA Lanchester Outstanding Research Prize
1976
Computer Design Hall of Fame
1982
CCNY Townsend Harris Medal
1982
UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer
1995
Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper
1975
ICC Prize Paper
1978
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award
1986
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award
1967
UCLA Outstanding Faculty Member
1966
IBM Science Advisory Committee
1982-88
CCNY Electrical Engineering Award
1956
Sr. Class President, CCNY evening session
1956
Founder
Linkabit Corporation 1968
Technology Transfer Institute 1976
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
of the National Research Council
1986
Computer Channel Inc.
1988
Nomadix, LLC 1995
Public Service
Founding Member
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the NRC
Invited Consultant
Mayor's Office of the City of Los Angeles
Member
Gigabit Testbed Advisory Board
Chair
Committee that produced
Realizing the Information Future, The Internet and Beyond
National Research Council
National Research Council
Member
Committee that produced
Computing the Future - A Broader Agenda for Computer Science & Engineering
Member
Committee that produced
Towards a National Research Network
National Research Council
Member
Alan T. Waterman Award Committee
National Science Foundation
Founding Member
Science Council of the Cross Industry Working Team
Congressional Testimony
on Realizing the Information Future
before the
Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
U.S. House of Representatives
May 26, 1994
Congressional Testimony
1988
VIP Project Participant
Telethon for Cerebral Palsy
Hobbies
Karate (Black Belt); marathon runner;
swimming; puzzles; and exotic nature trips.