Leonard Kleinrock

Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934, New York City) is an American computer scientist who developed the mathematical theory behind packet switching and who sent the first message between two computers on a network that was a precursor of the Internet. Kleinrock received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the City College of New York in 1957. He earned a master’s degree (1959) and a doctorate (1963) in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute...