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Pioneers and personalities: L

Welcome to the alphabetical walkthrough of pioneers and personalities. You’re now on letter L. Click through the rest of the alphabet to find out more about the people who’ve helped shape telecommunication as we know it today.

Licklider, Joseph Carl Robnett (1912-1990)

Licklider, Joseph Carl Robnett (1912-1990)

Joseph Licklider was a computer scientist who was influential in the ideas leading to the development of the internet. In the1960s he published a series of papers on the concept of networked computers, which he called ...


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