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Know Your Madisonian: Professor Larry Landweber lauded as Internet pioneer

When Larry Landweber was growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1950s, he competed on his high school math team. But he never imagined he would become a leader in a technology that has dramatically changed the world. Yet Landweber, 69, the John P. Morgridge professor emeritus of computer science at UW-Madison, is one of 33 people from nine countries who were the first to be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame last April in Geneva.