![KLEINROCK, Leonard (b. 1934). "Information flow in large communication nets. Proposal for a Ph.D. thesis." Photocopied typescript. 35ff. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 31, 1961. Black cloth. Provenance: Leonard Kleinrock. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page. -- KLEINROCK. (1) "Message delay in communication nets with storage." Photocopied typescript. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 1962. (2) Computer-printed letter signed from Kleinrock to Jeremy Norman, dated 27 April 2000, on UCLA School of Engineering letterhead. The two items bound together in black cloth. 1 sheet. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page of no. (1). -- KLEINROCK. "Program for the simulation of a communication net." Photocopied computer printout. [Cambridge, Mass, 1962]. Black cloth. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page. -- KLEINROCK. Communication nets: Stochastic message flow and delay. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. Original gray cloth, pictorial dus](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01484_0141_000(093220).jpg?w=1)
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KLEINROCK, Leonard (b. 1934). "Information flow in large communication nets. Proposal for a Ph.D. thesis." Photocopied typescript. 35ff. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 31, 1961. Black cloth. Provenance: Leonard Kleinrock. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page. -- KLEINROCK. (1) "Message delay in communication nets with storage." Photocopied typescript. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 1962. (2) Computer-printed letter signed from Kleinrock to Jeremy Norman, dated 27 April 2000, on UCLA School of Engineering letterhead. The two items bound together in black cloth. 1 sheet. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page of no. (1). -- KLEINROCK. "Program for the simulation of a communication net." Photocopied computer printout. [Cambridge, Mass, 1962]. Black cloth. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page. -- KLEINROCK. Communication nets: Stochastic message flow and delay. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. Original gray cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. Provenance: With Kleinrock's signed inscription on the title: "To Jeremy /For your wonderful archives Leonard Kleinrock 3/2/00." The first book on data-packet switching and queuing theory, the technology underlying data networks. -- [KLEINROCK.] "UCLA to be first station in nationwide computer network." Photocopied typescript. Los Angeles: University of California Office of Public Information, July 3, 1969. Unbound, in black binder. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page.
A unique collection, including material that was never officially published, documenting Kleinrock's creation of the theory of packet switching and the mathematical theory of data communication -- the theory that made the Internet possible. As a Ph.D candidate at MIT, Kleinrock was surrounded by many computers. He realized that sooner or later these computers would need to communicate with one another, and decided to develop the technology to make that occur. Early crude store-and-forward networks already existed but no one had elucidated the principles underlying the need for such structures. At the time the best available technology was the telephone system of circuit switching that was woefully inadequate and inefficient for data communications that occur in bursts. No one had produced a model for data networks, much less an analysis of how they performed under stochastic loads. Moreover, no optimal design procedures existed for laying out the topology, choosing the channel speeds, and selecting the routing procedure and routes on data networks. Responding to these challenges, Kleinrock developed a technology and a mathematical theory of data communication in three works from 1961-64: his thesis proposal dated May 31, 1961, his Ph.D. thesis dated December, 1962, and a book, Communication Nets, published in 1964. Among the concepts that Kleinrock established are the following:
1. Demand Access, such as packet switching.
2. Large Shared Systems, such as high speed channels, and the trading relations among delay, capacity and load.
3. Distributed Control, such as distributed routing algorithms.
From Gutenberg to the Internet, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4. OOC 750, 751, 752, 754.
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KLEINROCK, Leonard (b. 1934). "Information flow in large communication nets. Proposal for a Ph.D. thesis." Photocopied typescript. 35ff. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 31, 1961. Black cloth. Provenance: Leonard Kleinrock. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page. -- KLEINROCK. (1) "Message delay in communication nets with storage." Photocopied typescript. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 1962. (2) Computer-printed letter signed from Kleinrock to Jeremy Norman, dated 27 April 2000, on UCLA School of Engineering letterhead. The two items bound together in black cloth. 1 sheet. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page of no. (1). -- KLEINROCK. "Program for the simulation of a communication net." Photocopied computer printout. [Cambridge, Mass, 1962]. Black cloth. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page. -- KLEINROCK. Communication nets: Stochastic message flow and delay. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. Original gray cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. Provenance: With Kleinrock's signed inscription on the title: "To Jeremy /For your wonderful archives Leonard Kleinrock 3/2/00." The first book on data-packet switching and queuing theory, the technology underlying data networks. -- [KLEINROCK.] "UCLA to be first station in nationwide computer network." Photocopied typescript. Los Angeles: University of California Office of Public Information, July 3, 1969. Unbound, in black binder. Signed by Kleinrock on the first page.
A unique collection, including material that was never officially published, documenting Kleinrock's creation of the theory of packet switching and the mathematical theory of data communication -- the theory that made the Internet possible. As a Ph.D candidate at MIT, Kleinrock was surrounded by many computers. He realized that sooner or later these computers would need to communicate with one another, and decided to develop the technology to make that occur. Early crude store-and-forward networks already existed but no one had elucidated the principles underlying the need for such structures. At the time the best available technology was the telephone system of circuit switching that was woefully inadequate and inefficient for data communications that occur in bursts. No one had produced a model for data networks, much less an analysis of how they performed under stochastic loads. Moreover, no optimal design procedures existed for laying out the topology, choosing the channel speeds, and selecting the routing procedure and routes on data networks. Responding to these challenges, Kleinrock developed a technology and a mathematical theory of data communication in three works from 1961-64: his thesis proposal dated May 31, 1961, his Ph.D. thesis dated December, 1962, and a book, Communication Nets, published in 1964. Among the concepts that Kleinrock established are the following:
1. Demand Access, such as packet switching.
2. Large Shared Systems, such as high speed channels, and the trading relations among delay, capacity and load.
3. Distributed Control, such as distributed routing algorithms.
From Gutenberg to the Internet, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4. OOC 750, 751, 752, 754.
A unique collection, including material that was never officially published, documenting Kleinrock's creation of the theory of packet switching and the mathematical theory of data communication -- the theory that made the Internet possible. As a Ph.D candidate at MIT, Kleinrock was surrounded by many computers. He realized that sooner or later these computers would need to communicate with one another, and decided to develop the technology to make that occur. Early crude store-and-forward networks already existed but no one had elucidated the principles underlying the need for such structures. At the time the best available technology was the telephone system of circuit switching that was woefully inadequate and inefficient for data communications that occur in bursts. No one had produced a model for data networks, much less an analysis of how they performed under stochastic loads. Moreover, no optimal design procedures existed for laying out the topology, choosing the channel speeds, and selecting the routing procedure and routes on data networks. Responding to these challenges, Kleinrock developed a technology and a mathematical theory of data communication in three works from 1961-64: his thesis proposal dated May 31, 1961, his Ph.D. thesis dated December, 1962, and a book, Communication Nets, published in 1964. Among the concepts that Kleinrock established are the following:
1. Demand Access, such as packet switching.
2. Large Shared Systems, such as high speed channels, and the trading relations among delay, capacity and load.
3. Distributed Control, such as distributed routing algorithms.
From Gutenberg to the Internet, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4. OOC 750, 751, 752, 754.
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