Leonard Kleinrock

Lewis Carroll is a poet often known as ahead of his time, and his poems and books amazed the people of the 1800s. However, many things happened before Carroll became successful. Strange relationships with young girls and thoughts of “sin and guilt” surrounded Carroll’s reputation and his mind. Even his meeting with Alice Liddell (better known as the star in her book Alice in Wonderland) caused several whispers among critics and other writers. After making several relationships with small…

“I was never kinder to the old man than the week before I killed him” (Poe, 2). Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809, and lost both his parents when he was very young. He was adopted by John and Frances Allan. Eventually when he got older he grew apart from his foster parents due to his gambling addiction, and their relationship deteriorated. When Poe was grown he moved in with his grandmother and fell in love with his 14 year old cousin, Virginia. He married his cousin, who was his everything and…

Edgar Allen Poe died in Baltimore on October 7th, 1849. This is a great shame as he was one of the greatest literary minds this country has ever produced. He will certainly be known as one of the best horror and mystery authors of all time, as well as one of the first. Poe had very few friends, if any, but his literary accomplishments were too great for his death to go unnoticed. Born in Boston on January 19, 1809 his family was a very honorable one. His grandfather, David Poe, Sr., was well…

Poe’s Life of Tragedies “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” (Brainyquote) That was one of Edgar Allan Poe’s quotes. In Poe’s life a lot of catastrophic things happen to him, consequently that is what molds him into a poet. Edgar Allan Poe was a great poet in the eighteen hundreds and still today. Edgar Allan Poe was and still is a poet. Edgar’s life begins in Boston, Massachusetts on January…

Over the years people have been reading the amazingly, mysterious and creative works of Edgar Allan Poe. Many people have read him in their english classes around the world. I initialy read some of his works on my own, but have learned more about who he is as a writer in my English curriculum.I later got more into his work when I saw a play that my mother took me to. It was confusing which then made me want to understand. I only really ever have known his work and I feel that is only what most…

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in a poor family of actors. His father’s name is David Poe and his mother’s name is Elizabeth Arnold Poe. Poe also had a brother named William Henry Leonard and a sister named Rosalie who died because of pneumonia. Poe’s brother, William Henry Leonard, was left with his grandparents but Poe stayed with his parents who were very poor. After Poe’s father died in October 1810, In the article, it is stated that “Mrs. Poe continued to labor to support…

Individualism in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe was a journalist, a pamphleteer, a merchant but he was most famously known for being a novelist. His most famous book, being Robinson Crusoe, is set on a deserted island where a stranded man has to survive for 28 years. This oeuvre belongs to the English early novels and created a new form of storytelling. A storytelling in which Defoe wants his readers to believe that they are reading factual history rather than a piece of imagination…

Edgar Allen Poe’s Death Theory Did you know Edgar Allen Poe married his first cousin? Poe lied to the court about his wife’s age. She was thirteen and Poe was twenty-six. Later in life, she died of tuberculosis, like most women in Poe’s family. Back to Poe is passing. My thoughts on Poe’s death is that he died of rabies. Doctors even said he was not drunk when he was found. Poe’s symptoms were similar to signs of rabies. “Poe was found outside of a tavern, but wasn’t drunk.” (pg. 187 by Dr. R.…

The Internet is global network that allows you to connect to the world. In 2006, Dr. Leonard Kleinrock had given speech on Internet at Infocom. It includes – the situation before Internet was invented, how internet was invented, brief overview on Arpanet (beginning and growth), what all barriers had been removed after using internet, early pioneers, implementers contributions, some good and some dark sides of Internet, his future vision about internet and five golden guidelines to research. He…

The first recorded concept of social interactions that could be encompassed through networking was a collection of memos written by J.C.R Licklider from MIT in August 1962. Licklider spoke of “a galactic network” (Cerf) where he described a globally interconnected group of computers through which everyday people could efficiently obtain information and software from anywhere in the world. At its core, this idea was extremely similar to the Internet we utilize today. In October 1962, DARPA began…