Abstract:

Joint CS and EE Distinguished Lecturer
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These two distinguished lecture talks are hosted jointly by the CS and EE
departments. The distinguished lecturer, distinguished professor Leonard
Kleinrock will receive an honorary doctorate at the Technion on June 14th.
Earlier, on May, he will receive the Dan David prize at TAU.



Distinguished Lecture, June 15, 2010, 14:30, Taub 337

Title: My Life and My Work

Abstract:
This talk will describe the factors that influenced the author in choosing
his life's journey. He will describe the early influences, the chance
occurrences, the environment in which he grew up and was educated, the
barriers and challenges he met, the work he engaged in and some of the
achievements he accomplished. He will point out some of the interesting
results he obtained along the way which have a certain level of "charm". He
will also provide some lessons from his life and work that may be of
interest to the audience.




Distinguished Lecture, June 16, 2010, 14:30, Meyer (location to be
announced)

Title: A Brief History of the Internet

Abstract:
In this presentation we discuss the history and future of the Internet. 
The early work on packet switching is traced and then a brief description of
the critical events in the growth of the Internet is given. We then present
a vision of where the Internet is heading with a focus on the edge where
user participation, flexible applications and services, and innovation are
appearing. We foresee a network with extreme mobility, ubiquity,
personalization, adaptivity, video addiction and surprising applications as
yet unimagined.



Short bio
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* From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Kleinrock

Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934, in New York) is an engineer and
computer scientist, and a computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli
School of Engineering and Applied Science, who made several important
contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the
theoretical side of computer networking. He also played an important role in
the development of the ARPANET at UCLA.[3]

His most well-known and significant work is his early work on queueing
theory, which has applications in many fields, among them as a key
mathematical background to packet switching, the basic technology behind the
Internet. His initial contribution to this field was his doctoral thesis in
1962, published in book form in 1964; he later published several of the
standard works on the subject.

He has described this work as:

     "Basically, what I did for my PhD research in 1961-1962 was to
establish a mathematical
     theory of packet networks...."

His theoretical work on hierarchical routing, done in the late 1970s with
his then-student Farouk Kamoun, is now critical to the operation of today's
worldwide Internet.