Leonard kleinrock contributions of ancient greece

At age 7, he scrapped together found materials to build a crystal radio. I was hooked. In the centerfold of a comic book, I found the directions for building it with parts I could find around the house: an empty toilet-paper roll, some wire, a used razor blade and a piece of pencil lead. I also needed an earphone and a variable capacitor.

He developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT in the period.

I wired everything up, and I could hear music. No batteries, no electricity — just energy out of the air. My father wanted me to be an accountant. But the Bronx High School of Science was probably the best high school in America then, and I took their test and got in. One of my first classes was social studies. So I went to night school. And who teaches night school?

Working engineers, who could give us a lot of practical knowledge, in addition to theory. Meanwhile, I was also learning on the job. I took off work early to hear him. The fellowship paid you well as a research assistant while you went to MIT, and it also helped with room and board.