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Lawrence Roberts (born December 21, 1937, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.—died December 26, 2018, Redwood City, California) was an American computer scientist who supervised the construction of the ARPANET, a computer network that was a precursor to the Internet.
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Dec 30, 2018 · As a manager at the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA, Dr. Roberts designed much of the Arpanet — the internet’s precursor — and oversaw its implementation in 1969.
Dr. Roberts designed and managed the first packet network, the ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet). At that time, in 1967, Dr. Roberts became the Chief Scientist of ARPA taking on the task of designing, funding, and managing the radically new communications network concept of packet switching.
Jul 8, 2024 · Lawrence G. Roberts is best known for his work on the development of the ARPANET, a key predecessor to the internet and the first major network built on the principle of packet switching, and later as a pioneer of commercial packet switching with his roles in Telenet and the widely deployed X.25 protocol.
Roberts found his solution at a computer conference where a group of British scientists introduced him to a concept called packet switching, introduced a few years earlier by Paul Baran at the ...
Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts led the team that designed and developed ARPANET, the world's first major computer packet network. Dr. Roberts, as Advanced Research Projects Agency's (ARPA's) chief scientist, began to architect ARPANET in 1966 influenced by the theoretical packet switching work by Dr. Leonard Kleinrock.
Lawrence (Larry) Roberts was the ARPANET program manager, and led the overall system design. Roberts obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, and then joined the Lincoln Laboratory, where he carried out research into computer networks.
