Gérard Le Lann is a French computer scientist at
INRIA
The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics.
It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...
.
In networking, he worked on the project
CYCLADES
The CYCLADES computer network () was a French research network created in the early 1970s. It was one of the pioneering networks experimenting with the concept of packet switching and, unlike the ARPANET, was explicitly designed to facilitate i ...
with an intermediate stint on the
Arpanet
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the tec ...
team.
Life and career
Gérard Le Lann's career has been summarized in 1975 as follows:
::Gérard Le Lann holds French degrees, a M.S. in Applied Mathematics, an Engineering Degree in Computer Science (both from the University of
Toulouse
Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...
) and a Ph.D in Computer Science (University of
Rennes
Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...
). He started his career at
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...
, Geneva (Switzerland), and joined IRIA (now
INRIA
The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics.
It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...
) in 1972. His main areas of research are distributed dependable computing and networking, real-time computing and networking, proof-based system engineering and, more recently, mobile wireless safety-critical cyber-physical systems and networks.
His contribution to the design of Internet TCP/IPs, in its early phases, has been acknowledged.
[
Specification of the Internet Transmission Protocol - December 1974 Version (RFC 675]
See also
*
History of the Internet
The history of the Internet originated in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks. The Internet protocol suite, Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devi ...
*
Internet in France
*
Hubert Zimmermann
Hubert Zimmermann (15 November 1941 – 9 November 2012) was a French software engineer and a pioneering figure in computer networking.
Biography
Education:
Zimmermann was educated at École Polytechnique and École Nationale Supérieure des T ...
*
List of Internet pioneers
Instead of having a single inventor, the Internet was developed by many people over many years. The following people are Internet pioneers who have been recognized for their contribution to its early and ongoing development. These contributions ...
*
Louis Pouzin
Louis Pouzin (born 20 April 1931) is a French computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He directed the development of the CYCLADES computer network in France the early 1970s, which implemented a novel design for packet communication. He was the ...
*
Protocol Wars
*
Rémi Després
Rémi Després (born January 16, 1943) is a French engineer and entrepreneur known for his contributions on data networking.
Education
In 1961–1963, Rémi Després attended École Polytechnique of Paris, of which he holds an Engineer degree ...
References
External links
ARPANET is now 50 years old
French computer scientists
{{France-compu-bio-stub
People associated with CERN
ARPANET
Internet pioneers