Leonard Kleinrock in his office with parts of the Internet packet switch exposed.
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Leonard Kleinrock in his office with parts of the Internet packet switch exposed.

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Kleinrock Publishes the Mathematical Theory of Data Communications

1964
Kleinrock's Communication Nets
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In 1964 American computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock published his 1962 PhD thesis in book form as Communication Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Delay, providing a technology and mathematical theory of data communications. (See Reading 13.4.)

Timeline Themes

Telecommunications
Communication Theory / Information Theory
Internet & Networking