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Lawrence Roberts

1937 - 2018

Lawrence Roberts

Lawrence Gilman Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet", and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002. As a program manager and office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American Paul Baran underpinned by the theoretical work of Leonard Kleinrock. The ARPANET, which was built by the Massachusetts-based company Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), was a predecessor to the modern Internet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, his Wikipedia page in English has received more than 6,320 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 321st most popular BUSINESSPERSON.

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  • 6.3k

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  • 44.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE, Lawrence Roberts ranks 321 out of 481. Before him are Anders Hejlsberg, Sundar Pichai, Henry Clay Frick, Jakob Nielsen, Brendan Eich, and Ma Huateng. After him are Allan Williams, Jorma Ollila, Josep Bonaplata i Corriol, Dana White, Mikhail Fridman, and Bob Lazar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Lawrence Roberts ranks 292. Before him are Sandy Dennis, Vladimir Makanin, Antonio Betancort, Prosper Avril, Jerry Weintraub, and John Ogdon. After him are Leo Kadanoff, Zoltán Horváth, J. Bernlef, Ferenc Kósa, Delia Derbyshire, and Jerry Reed. Among people deceased in 2018, Lawrence Roberts ranks 285. Before him are Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Patricia Morison, Elias M. Stein, Glenn Branca, Verne Troyer, and Dave Holland. After him are William Blum, Ferenc Kósa, Evelyn Berezin, Győző Kulcsár, Kate Wilhelm, and Donald H. Peterson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Roberts ranks 5,689 out of 12,171. Before him are Louis Bromfield (1896), James Mangold (1963), John Corigliano (1938), Smedley Butler (1881), Nina Mercedez (1979), and Lizabeth Scott (1922). After him are Adam Darius (1930), Bobby Womack (1944), George O. Abell (1927), Burt Kennedy (1922), Nick Jonas (1992), and Theodore Roberts (1861).

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