Dr. Larry Roberts, PhD
My blogs
| Industry | Telecommunications |
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| Location | Redwood City, California, United States |
| Introduction | Dr. Larry Roberts is Founder and Chairman of Anagran Inc. Anagran develops and manufactures IP flow-based traffic management network equipment, the first major improvement in packet network technology in the 40 years since Dr. Roberts designed and managed the first packet network, the ARPANET (now the Internet). At that time, in 1967, Dr. Roberts became the Chief Scientist of ARPA taking on the task of designing, funding, and managing a radically new communications network concept (packet switching) to interconnect computers worldwide. The first four nodes of the ARPANET were installed in 1969 and by 1973 when Dr. Roberts left ARPA to become CEO of Telenet (now part of Sprint), the concept of packet switching had been well proven to the world. Dr. Roberts has BS, MS, and Ph.D. Degrees from MIT and has received numerous awards for his work, including the L.M. Ericsson prize for research in data communications, the IEEE Internet Award, the National Academy of Engineering Draper Award, and many other industry acknowledgements. |