Kleinrock

From: Paul Braun <nerdware_at_laidbak.com>
Date: Wed Feb 17 23:59:08 1999

I just went to Len's homepage, and from what I can tell, based on the research
and reading that I've done, the story as put forth in his bio is accurate. Licklider
had forseen a worldwide (actually, galactic) network where information was
accessible to anyone, anywhere. Kleinrock did describe how packet switching
would work in his dissertation. Plus, the UCLA team was under his command.
ARPA was under Bob Taylor (later to run PARC), but Taylor's job was to
assemble the people to make it happen, and Kleinrock was one of them.

If you get a chance to see the PBS series, Kleinrock is interviewed several
times. You probably don't know his name because most of the guys from
ARPA and PARC are unknowns. They are responsible for inventing most of
today's computer technology, but other guys were much better at exploiting
their inventions and assuming credit for them (not to mention anybill's name.....)



Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware_at_laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware
Received on Wed Feb 17 1999 - 23:59:08 GMT

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