President George W. Bush announced Monday that Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Leonard Kleinrock has been selected to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. Kleinrock and seven other scientists will receive the medal at a White House ceremony on Sept. 29.
Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology that underpins the Internet. On Oct. 29, 1969, his host computer at UCLA exchanged the first Internet message with a computer at Stanford Research Institute. See the 1969 log entry
Bruin alumna Dawn Harper won the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles at the Beijing games. UCLA athletes and alums won 15 medals in all. Bruins in Beijing blog.
AB 2296, introduced by Assemblymember Gene Mullin to help protect university faculty from intimidation and violence, goes back to the state Assembly for a vote.
For three weeks, 25 incoming 11th- and 12th-graders from Los Angeles high schools learned how to conduct social research on tough issues in a program led by UCLA education professors.
Barbara Bachman, who survived a knife attack at the Olympics, is back home at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Her condition has improved, Bruin volleyball alumna Elisabeth "Wiz" Bachman said in a statement with her sisters.
Radical behavioral changes need to be adopted by enough people at risk of HIV infection for prevention strategies to have any chance of success, UCLA AIDS Institute associate director Thomas Coates and colleagues argue.
The Democratic National Convention is Aug. 25-28 in Denver. UCLA has several faculty members with expertise who can help make sense of the activities and the election. Bios and media contacts
"The Fowler's recent 'Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diaspora,' organized by Henry John Drewal, was an object lesson in how exhibition design can be visually magnetic, object-centered and idea-clarifying; how it can deliver both a big thrill and a hard think."
"Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, said U.S. economic data still suggest a weakening economy rather than a full-blown recession, but the stronger dollar poses a significant threat to that outlook."
