Larry Roberts (computer scientist)

The ARPANET plan. As programme manager at the US Defense Department's research agency from 1966, Roberts wrote the plan for the ARPANET, adopted packet switching after hearing of Davies's and Baran's work, and chose Bolt Beranek and Newman to build the small routing computers. He then ran the network's growth and later founded Telenet, an early commercial packet network. He died in 2018.