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Professor Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA is shown in the birthplace...
Professor Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA is shown next to UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP) in the birthplace of the Internet, at the 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA July 27, 2011. Kleinrock developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet which was used in the transmission of the first message, the letters LO, to Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. The UCLA Department of Computer Science and Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have collaborated in creating the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive (KIHSA), with the center recreating the lab at its original site in 3420 Boelter Hall, from which that first message was sent. The ARAPANET evolved into the Internet that we use today. The recreated lab will open October 29 with a reunion of the computer scientists responsible for the first message. Picture taken July 27, 2011. REUTERS/Fred Prouser (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS EDUCATION)