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Internet Anniversary: Today is the 30th anniversary of the first transmission on what was to become the Internet, and UCLA will mark the occasion with a symposium about the global computer network. Panelists will discuss the Internet’s impact on business, the economy, education and the evolution of a global community. Among the speakers will be Leonard Kleinrock, the UCLA computer science professor who supervised the group that sent the first transmission, from a terminal on the Westwood campus to the Stanford Research Institute, on Sept. 2, 1969. The computer, known officially as Interface Message Processor No. 1, will be on display at the symposium. Also on hand will be Lawrence Roberts, who wrote the blueprint for the network that became the Internet, and Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, who created the TCP/IP protocol that governs Internet transmissions.