Brief Summary of First, Key Accomplishments and Contributions

1. First to develop the underlying principles of packet switching, the communications technology of the Internet (this was a decade before the Internet was founded).
2. Known as a Father of Modern Data Networking.
3. Published the first paper on Packet Switching Theory, "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" (July, 1961).
4. Published the first book on packet switching ("Communications Nets", 1964).
5. Helped to lay out some of the key functional specifications for the ARPANET (predecessor to the Internet).
6. Directed the installation of the first Internet node (September, 1969).
7. Supervised the first message transmission on the Arpanet in October, 1969; this was the first murmurings of what later exploded into the Internet.
8. Established and ran the network's Network Measurement Center for its entire life.
9. Published the classic text on queueing theory, the key analytical tool for describing data networks.
10. Published the first book describing the workings of the Internet.
11. Organized and chaired the first Symposium commemorating the full life of the ARPANET in August 1989, its 20th and final anniversary.
12. Produced 47 Ph.D. students who form a brain trust of networking expertise both in the USA and internationally.
13. Led the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) committee which laid out the framework in 1988 for the emerging Gigabit networks.
14. Founding member of the Cross-Industrial Working Team to promote the development of the National Information Infrastructure.
15. Led the National Research Council's CSTB committee which produced the 1994 report "Realizing the Information Future; The Internet and Beyond"; this laid out the fundamental vision for the National Information Infrastructure.
16. Led the research and development movement in Nomadic Computing and Communications.