| LC control no. | no 97023211 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Roberts, L. G. (Lawrence G.) |
| Variant(s) | Roberts, Lawrence G. |
| Birth date | 1937-12-21 |
| Death date | 2018-12-26 |
| Place of birth | Westport (Conn.) |
| Place of death | Redwood City (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | ARPANET (Computer network) Computer networks |
| Affiliation | United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| Profession or occupation | Electrical engineers Computer scientists |
| Found in | Resource sharing computer networks, 1970: t.p. (L.G. Roberts, Advanced Research Projects Agency) p. 543 (Lawrence G. Roberts) LCCN 79007356: Machine perception of three-dimensional solids, 1980 (heading: Roberts, Lawrence G., 1937- ; usage: Lawrence G. Roberts; work based on author's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 2, 2019 (in obituary published Dec. 30, 2018: Lawrence G. Roberts; b. Lawrence Gilman Roberts, Dec. 21, 1937, Westport, Conn.; d. Dec. 26 [2018], Redwood City, Calif., aged 81; Ph. D. in electrical engineering, M.I.T., 1963; computer scientist; as a manager at the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA, Dr. Roberts designed much of the Arpanet, the Internet's precursor, and oversaw its implementation in 1969) |
| Associated language | eng |
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