Lawrence Landweber
{{short description|American writer and academic}}
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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."[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636867580 WorldCat]
He is best known for founding the CSNET project in 1979, which later developed into NSFNET.{{cite journal | url=http://www.newsweek.com/1995/12/24/the-net-50.html | title=The Net50 | journal=Newsweek |date=25 December 1995}} 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}}.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694056 WorldCat ]Review, American Mathematical Monthly, Mar., 1976, vol. 83, no. 3, p. 211-213
Awards
- Member of the board of trustees of Internet Society (1992-1997){{cite web |title=List of Internet Society Board of Trustees |url=https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/list-of-trustees/ |website=Internet Society}}
- President, Internet Society (1995-1997)
- Fellow, ACM.
- Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Brooklyn College, 2009 {{cite web |url=http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/1825.htm |title=Brooklyn College | "Internet Guardian" Lawrence H. Landweber (?63) to Deliver BC Commencement Address |website=www.brooklyn.cuny.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008004801/http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/1825.htm |archive-date=2009-10-08}}
- 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.[http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/year/2012 2012 Inductees], Internet Hall of Fame website. Last accessed April 24, 2012
References
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External links
- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lhl/ Official web page at Wisconsin
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Category:Brooklyn College alumni
Category:Purdue University alumni
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Category:Writers from Wisconsin
Category:1996 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery