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Larry Roberts, a Common card
Lawrence Gilman Roberts was an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 150
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,900
Power 150 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Larry Roberts quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Larry Roberts card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Roberts asked Leonard Kleinrock to apply mathematical methods to model and measure the ______ of the network.
Answer
performance. Roberts asked Leonard Kleinrock to apply mathematical methods to model and measure the performance of the network. From the Larry Roberts article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Health psychology. Health psychology 80 · Larry Roberts 76 · Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran 70 · RNA helicase 56 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Health psychology. Health psychology 15,000 · Nanoelectromechanical systems 9,600 · Larry Roberts 6,900 · Annie S. D. Maunder 4,200 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET, the first wide-area computer network to implement packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American engineer Paul Baran.
- The ARPANET's principal designer was Bob Kahn, alongside several other computer scientists from Bolt Beranek and Newman who worked on the Interface Message Processors and their communication protocols.
- Roberts asked Leonard Kleinrock to apply mathematical methods to model and measure the performance of the network.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Larry Roberts article was read about 6,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Larry Roberts
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Larry Roberts (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
