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Lawrence Gilman Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet", and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- December 26, 2018 (aged 81), Redwood City, California
- Lawrence Gilman Roberts, December 21, 1937, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.
- ARPANET, founding father of the Internet
Dec 30, 2018 · Dr. Roberts insisted that engineers look for practical uses for the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet. Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images. By Katie Hafner. Dec. 30, 2018. In late 1966, a...
May 6, 2024 · 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.
Roberts has BS, MS, and Ph.D. Degrees from MIT and has received numerous awards for his work, including the L.M. Ericsson prize for research in data communications, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the IEEE Internet Award, the National Academy of Engineering Draper Award, the Principe de Asturias Award, and the NEC Computer and Communication Award.
Apr 2, 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.
Jan 3, 2019 · The man who actually got the internet going has passed away. Lawrence Gilman Roberts in October 2007. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Beeeeeeep. It was far too ...
Nov 2, 2018 · Lawrence Roberts, the first person to connect two computers, was responsible for developing computer networks at ARPA, working with scientist Leonard Kleinrock. When the first packet-switching network was developed in 1969, Kleinrock successfully used it to send messages to another site, and the ARPA Network, or ARPANET, was born—the ...
