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  1. Lawrence Gilman Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet ", [4] and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002.

  2. May 6, 2024 · Lawrence Roberts (born December 21, 1937, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.—died December 26, 2018, Redwood City, California) was an American computer scientist who supervised the construction of the ARPANET, a computer network that was a precursor to the Internet.

  3. Dec 30, 2018 · By Katie Hafner. Dec. 30, 2018. In late 1966, a 29-year-old computer scientist drew a series of abstract figures on tracing paper and a quadrille pad. Some resembled a game of cat’s cradle;...

  4. Dr. Roberts designed and managed the first packet network, the ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet). At that time, in 1967, Dr. Roberts became the Chief Scientist of ARPA taking on the task of designing, funding, and managing the radically new communications network concept of packet switching.

  5. Nov 2, 2018 · Lawrence Roberts, the first person to connect two computers, was responsible for developing computer networks at ARPA, working with scientist Leonard Kleinrock. When the first packet-switching network was developed in 1969, Kleinrock successfully used it to send messages to another site, and the ARPA Network, or ARPANET, was born ...

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  6. www.computerhistory.org › profile › larry-robertsLarry Roberts - CHM

    Lawrence G. Roberts is best known for his work on the development of the ARPANET, a key predecessor to the internet and the first major network built on the principle of packet switching, and later as a pioneer of commercial packet switching with his roles in Telenet and the widely deployed X.25 protocol.

  7. Lawrence G. Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American scientist. He won the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet", and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002. Roberts created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies.