Saturday, October 29, 2005

Leonard Kleinrock



Did you ever think how the world would be different without internet? Well... I can say i do, this picture explains it all, it was one of the best days of my life...I saw the man who created the internet at a distance of 10 mts,he gave a conference in my university and then he was awarded by the "rettore" of the university. It was so incredible...just to have him in front of me,to hear him...
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. This was a decade before the birth of the Internet which occurred when his host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet in September 1969
There are people who really changed the world, he is one of those people