I just took part in a virtual lunch & learn session run by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

I expect the talk will be up on the Fowler website in a few days time but they have posted it already to their Facebook page should you want to see it there.

Here's the blurb... I found it a easy and enjoyable watch.

[snip]

Few cultural revolutions can trace their origins as precisely as the one that took place in 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA on October 29, 1969, the day the internet came into existence. Professor Leonard Kleinrock developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology that underpins the internet. The first node of the ARPANET was established at Kleinrock's UCLA lab, and a new era of connectivity was born.

The Interface Message Processor Log entry for the first message sent over the ARPANET is currently on view at the Fowler in "Communications Systems in a Global Context." Join the Fowler in welcoming Kleinrock, who will share the events surrounding that seminal moment at Boelter Hall, which has since been redesigned by Sebastian Clough, Fowler's director of exhibitions, as the Kleinrock Internet History Center.

[snip]

The FB link is

https://www.facebook.com/FowlerMuseum/videos/261460009424608

Best, Paul

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On 14 Jan 2022 at 10:28a, Avon pondered and said...

[snip]

Few cultural revolutions can trace their origins as precisely as the one that took place in 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA on October 29, 1969, the
day the internet came into existence. Professor Leonard Kleinrock developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology
that underpins the internet. The first node of the ARPANET was
established at Kleinrock's UCLA lab, and a new era of connectivity was born.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa.... They wrote that? That's not quite right;
the idea of "packet" switching predates Kleinrock's work, and he's
most famous for the work he's done on queuing theory, which has had
an enormous impact. He was certainly one of the central players in
the early ARPANet, and he should be recognized and celebrated, but
shame on UCLA for not recognizing him properly. I'll bet he was
horrified.

A wonderful, easily accessible history of the early ARPANet and
Internet is, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet"
by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon. I can't recommend it enough.
Also, if folks haven't seen it, I highly recommend the documentary
"Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing". It's
amazingly prescient; the folks working on the ARPANET in the late
1960s and early 1970s really envisioned basically what the Internet
has become, including cloud computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ7ktIlSM0

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On 15 Jan 2022 at 02:35a, tenser pondered and said...

Whoa whoa whoa whoa.... They wrote that? That's not quite right;
the idea of "packet" switching predates Kleinrock's work, and he's
most famous for the work he's done on queuing theory, which has had
an enormous impact. He was certainly one of the central players in
the early ARPANet, and he should be recognized and celebrated, but
shame on UCLA for not recognizing him properly. I'll bet he was horrified.

No it seemed he was fine with the introduction and if you watch it I think the host repeats some of the text above, I can only assume the museum staff were behind what was written as that's where I got it from :)

A wonderful, easily accessible history of the early ARPANet and
Internet is, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet"
by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon. I can't recommend it enough.
Also, if folks haven't seen it, I highly recommend the documentary "Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing". It's
amazingly prescient; the folks working on the ARPANET in the late
1960s and early 1970s really envisioned basically what the Internet
has become, including cloud computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ7ktIlSM0

Thank you, I'll certainly have a look for these. I enjoy the history and the technical and social details behind it all.

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On 23 Jan 2022 at 04:18p, Avon pondered and said...

On 15 Jan 2022 at 02:35a, tenser pondered and said...

Whoa whoa whoa whoa.... They wrote that? That's not quite right; the idea of "packet" switching predates Kleinrock's work, and he's most famous for the work he's done on queuing theory, which has had an enormous impact. He was certainly one of the central players in the early ARPANet, and he should be recognized and celebrated, but shame on UCLA for not recognizing him properly. I'll bet he was horrified.

No it seemed he was fine with the introduction and if you watch it I
think the host repeats some of the text above, I can only assume the museum staff were behind what was written as that's where I got it from
:)

I imagine he'd be too gracious to correct them on the spot. :-)

He was certainly there; don't get me wrong. But the concept
of packet switching came from a group of folks. Paul Baran
(in the US) and Donald Davies (in the UK) are arguably more
central to the concept.

The IMP at Kleinrock's lab at UCLA connected to the SRI IMP
was the first permanent ARPANET link, of course. It's hard
to overstate Kleinrock's role, but to call him the inventor
of packet switching is definitely a stretch.

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