Dr. Kleinrock will receive the INFORMS President's Award. The award recognizes and encourages important contributions by operations researchers to the welfare of society at the local, national, and global level. The award will be presented at the national convention of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®). The convention will take place at the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel from Sunday, November 7 to Wednesday, November 10. The theme is "ORMS and the Quality of Life."
INFORMS President's Award Presentation
DATE: Monday, November 8
TIME: 10 - 11 AM
PLACE: Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Salon E - F
Professor Kleinrock is available for interview.
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock is known as the Inventor of the Internet Technology, having created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. This was a decade before the birth of the Internet which occurred when his Host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet in September 1969. He wrote the first paper and published the first book on the subject; he also directed the transmission of the first message ever to pass over the Internet.
Additional information about Dr. Kleinrock is available on the Internet at http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/. Additional information about the INFORMS conference is available at http://www2.informs.org/Conf/Philadelphia99/ and http://www2.informs.org/Press.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international scientific society with 12,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work primarily in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, and telecommunications.