Leonard Kleinrock

Leonard Kleinrock

male, 75 years old (Beverly Hills, California, United States)
hierarchical routing, ARPANET, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, computer pioneer, Jewish person, City University of New York…computer networking, computer scientist, computernetwork
Kleinrock, Leonard Based on his Ph.D. work at MIT on computer networking, Kleinrock was asked to join ARPA to work on a unified network in response...
Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart

male, 84 years old
computer pioneer, computer mouse, invented the mouse, GUIs, Human-Computer Interaction, mouse…computer hardware engineer, computernetwork
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing...
Alan Cox

Alan Cox

male, 41 years old
Linux kernel hacker, Linux, Red Hat, From swansea, MBA, USENIX…computer programmer, computernetwork, network
Alan Cox (born 1968) is a British computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991).
Carl Kesselman

Carl Kesselman

male
University of Southern California faculty, University of Southern California, Data Access, Information Sciences Institute, Globus, supercomputer…computernetwork, computer security
Carl Kesselman, Dir. Center for Grid Technologies, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Chief Scientist, Univa...
Roy Fielding

Roy Fielding

male, 44 years old
University of California, Irvine, Roy T. Fielding, Representational State Transfer, Uniform Resource Identifier, HTTP, OpenSolaris…computernetwork
Roy T. Fielding (born 1965) is one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and a frequently-cited authority on computer network...
Robert C. Prim

Robert C. Prim

male, 88 years old
Edsger Dijkstra, Sandia National Laboratories, Bell Laboratories, Prim's algorithm, United States Naval Ordnance Lab, computer network design…computer pioneer, computer scientist, computernetwork
Robert Clay Prim is an American mathematician and computer scientist. In 1941, Prim received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton...
Srinivasan Keshav

Srinivasan Keshav

male
Non-fiction writer, Cornell University, An Engineering approach to Computer Networks, University of Waterloo faculty, author, university of waterloo…computernetwork, computer scientist
Srinivasan Keshav is the author of the much celebrated book on computer networks titled "An Engineering approach to Computer Networks". He used to...

Drew Major

male
NetWare operating system, Netware, Father of NetWare, Novell, Mark Hurst, Kyle Powell…National Computer Industry Hall of Fame, network, computernetwork
Drew Major and his partners Kyle Powell, Dale Neibaur and Mark Hurst envisioned the significance of local area networking (LAN) in 1981. By 1991,...
Richard Rashid

Richard Rashid

male (Redmond, Washington, United States)
Microsoft, Microsoft Research, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research, research, doctorate, networking…computernetwork, Computer Directorate Advisory Committee
Richard 'Rick' Rashid currently oversees Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. Previously, he was the director of Microsoft Research. He...
David A. Huffman

David A. Huffman

male, deceased (1999)
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty, SCD, computer scientist, fax machine, Ohio State University alumni, computernetwork…computer pioneer
David Albert Huffman (August 9, 1925 - October 7, 1999) was a pioneer in the computer science field. Throughout his life, Huffman made significant...