Lawrence Gilman Roberts is widely regarded as one of the fathers of the Internet via his work on ARPAnet, and he is also seen as one of the creators of e-mail.

Lawrence Roberts was born in 1937 in Connecticut, where he went to school. His higher education was undertaken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from where he received a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D., all in mathematics and computing. Once he had finished his education at MIT Roberts joined the Lincoln Laboratory at MIT where he was engaged in research on computer networks, initially under the directorship of J. C. R. Licklider. By 1965 Roberts, working under Ivan Sutherland, produced a system by which the Lincoln Laboratory TX-2 computer was able to interchange information with an AN/FSQ32 computer located at the Systems Development Corporation at Santa Monica, California, utilizing a dedicated 1200 bps telephone...