Lawrence Landweber

Lawrence Hugh Landweber is John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 at Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1967. His doctoral thesis was "A design algorithm for sequential machines and definability in monadic second-order arithmetic."^[1]

He is best known for founding the CSNET project in 1979, which later developed into NSFNET.^[2] He is credited with having made the fundamental decision to use the TCP/IP protocol.

Publications

He is co-author of Brainerd, Walter S., and Lawrence H. Landweber. Theory of Computation. New York: Wiley, 1974. ISBN 978-0-471-09585-9.^[3]^[4]

Awards

President, Internet Society ^[2]
Fellow, ACM.
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Brooklyn College, 2009 ^[5]
IEEE Award on International Communication, 2005
Member of the board of Internet2 (2000–2008)
Jonathan B. Postel Service Award of the Internet Society, for CSNET, 2009
In 2012, Landweber was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.^[6]

References

↑ WorldCat
1 2 "The Net50". Newsweek. 25 December 1995.
↑ WorldCat
↑ Review, American Mathematical Monthly, Mar., 1976, vol. 83, no. 3, p. 211-213
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↑ 2012 Inductees, Internet Hall of Fame website. Last accessed April 24, 2012

External links

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lhl/ Official web page at Wisconsin

Internet Hall of Fame

Pioneers

2012	Paul Baran^† Vint Cerf Danny Cohen Steve Crocker Donald Davies^† Elizabeth J. Feinler Charles Herzfeld Robert Kahn Peter T. Kirstein Leonard Kleinrock John Klensin Jon Postel^† Louis Pouzin Lawrence Roberts

2013	David Clark David Farber Howard Frank Kanchana Kanchanasut J. C. R. Licklider^† Bob Metcalfe Jun Murai Kees Neggers Nii Quaynor Glenn Ricart Robert Taylor Stephen Wolff Werner Zorn

2014	Douglas Engelbart^† Susan Estrada Frank Heart Dennis Jennings Rolf Nordhagen^† Radia Perlman

Global connectors

2012	Randy Bush Kilnam Chon Al Gore Nancy Hafkin Geoff Huston Brewster Kahle Daniel Karrenberg Toru Takahashi Tan Tin Wee

2013	Karen Banks Gihan Dias Anriette Esterhuysen Steve Goldstein Teus Hagen Ida Holz Qiheng Hu Haruhisa Ishida^† Barry Leiner^† George Sadowsky

2014	Dai Davies Demi Getschko Masaki Hirabaru^† Erik Huizer Steven Huter Abhaya Induruwa Dorcas Muthoni Mahabir Pun Srinivasan Ramani Michael Roberts Ben Segal Douglas Van Houweling

Innovators

2012	Mitchell Baker Tim Berners-Lee Robert Cailliau Van Jacobson Lawrence Landweber Paul Mockapetris Craig Newmark Raymond Tomlinson Linus Torvalds Philip Zimmermann

2013	Marc Andreessen John Perry Barlow François Flückiger Stephen Kent Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder Henning Schulzrinne Richard Stallman Aaron Swartz^† Jimmy Wales

2014	Eric Allman Eric Bina Karlheinz Brandenburg John Cioffi Hualin Qian Paul Vixie

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 33578594 LCCN: n88653901 ISNI: 0000 0001 1052 3495 MGP: 82003

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