Gérard Le Lann

Gérard Le Lann
Citizenship	France
Alma mater	École Nationale Supérieure d'Électrotechnique, d'Électronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications (ENSEEIHT)
Awards	Lamb award of Académie des Sciences in 2012[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA)

Gérard Le Lann is a French computer scientist at INRIA.

In networking, he worked on the project CYCLADES with an intermediate stint on the Arpanet team.

Life and career

Gérard Le Lann's career has been summarized in 1975 as follows:^[2]

Gérard Le Lann holds French degrees, a M.S. in Applied Mathematics, an Engineering Degree in Computer Science (both from the University of Toulouse) and a Ph.D in Computer Science (University of Rennes). He started his career at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), and joined IRIA (now INRIA) 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.^[3]

See also

• History of the Internet
• Internet in France
• Hubert Zimmermann
• List of Internet pioneers
• Louis Pouzin
• Protocol Wars
• Rémi Després

References

1. Lamb award of Académie des Sciences
2. "Biographie en anglais"
3. Specification of the Internet Transmission Protocol - December 1974 Version (RFC 675) [1]

External links

• ARPANET is now 50 years old