Lawrence Roberts (scientist)

Lawrence Roberts
Lawrence Roberts
	Roberts in 2017
Born	Lawrence Gilman Roberts; December 21, 1937; Westport, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	December 26, 2018 (aged 81); Redwood City, California
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	ARPANET, founding father of the Internet
Awards	IEEE Computer Pioneer Award; IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award; Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGCOMM Communications Award; Harry Goode Memorial Award; International Engineering Consortium Fellow award, 2001; Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineers; Principe de Asturias Award, 2002; Secretary of Defense Meritorious Service Medal; Interface Conference Award; L.M. Ericsson prize for research in data communications, 1982;
	Scientific career
Institutions	Lincoln Lab, ARPA, Telenet
Website	packet.cc
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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.

As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American engineer Paul Baran. The ARPANET's principal designer was Bob Kahn who worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). Roberts asked Leonard Kleinrock to apply mathematical methods to model and measure the performance of the network, which was a predecessor to the modern Internet.

Roberts later was CEO of the commercial packet-switching network Telenet, the first public data network in North America.

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