MIT

The world-famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1861 in Cambridge, Massachusetts due to the growing industrialisation of the USA under the motto “learning by doing”. Today one of the best universities in the world consists of five schools with 32 departments
No university with its professors and students has probably contributed more to the early development of the internet than the famous MIT.
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In 1961 then-MIT professor Leonard Kleinrock wrote the first paper on packet switching „Information Flow in Large Communication Nets". One year later his colleague J.C.R. Licklider published his concept of a “galactic network”. In 1965 ARPA funded the connection from MIT to SDC, a California based computer company, via a 1200 kbps telephone line, which was later called the „Experimental Network". The following year Larry Roberts – another MIT professor – sketched the first ARPANET plans, which was realized three years later with the first four nodes of the ARPANET. In 1971 MIT itself hocked up to the ARPANET as one of the first 15 nodes.
But there have been working many more internet pioneers at one time at MIT, for instance the inventor of WWW Tim Berners-Lee, the founding members of BBN, Bob Metcalfe or Vannevar Bush. Many computer related companies have been founded by MIT-alumni, such as Hewlett Packard, Texas Instruments and Intel.
Famous MIT-alumni also include former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan or former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu.