Education
He received his bachelor"s degree in 1963 at Brooklyn College and his Doctor of Philosophy at Purdue University in 1967.
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Lawrence Landweber
Edit Profilemathematician university professor
Career
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 project in 1979, which later developed into NSFNET. He is credited with having made the fundamental decision to use the TCP/Intellectual Property protocol.
Achievements
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President, Internet Society Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Brooklyn College, 2009 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 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.
