Lawrence H. Landweber is John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Science

Computer science

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 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

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 and his Ph.D. at Purdue University

Purdue University

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 in 1967. His doctoral thesis was "A design algorithm for sequential machines and definability in monadic second-order arithmetic."

He is best known for founding the CSNET

CSNET

The Computer Science Network was a computer network that began operation in 1981 in the United States. Its purpose was to extend networking benefits, for computer science departments at academic and research institutions that could not be directly connected to ARPANET, due to funding or...

 project in 1979, which later developed into NSFNET

NSFNet

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. 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 9780471095859.

Awards

• President, Internet Society
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• Fellow, ACM
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• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Brooklyn College, 2009
• IEEE Award on International Communication, 2005
• Member of the board of Internet2
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  (2000–2008)
• Jonathan B. Postel Service Award of the Internet Society, for CSNET, 2009

External links

• http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lhl/ Official web page at Wisconsin