Oral-History:Leonard Kleinrock

About Leonard Kleinrock

Leonard Kleinrock was educated at the City College of New York and received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. He made an enormous contribution to the birth of the internet. Kleinrock teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Leonard Kleinrock starts this interview with a discussion of his early interests and education. He mentions the importance of the practical experience that he acquired since an early age. Then, he moves to talk about his training at MIT and about his mentor, Claude Shannon. Kleinrock discusses at length the beginning of his work and research with computer networks and about the beginning of the internet. He briefly talks about the “dark side” of the internet. He discusses nomadic computing and the founding of Nomadix Company. The interview ends with some comments about his family and personal interests.