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Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.
Robert Kahn, American electrical engineer, one of the principal architects, with Vinton Cerf, of the Internet. In 2004 they won the A.M. Turing Award for their ‘pioneering work in internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet’s basic communications protocols, TCP/IP.’
Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet. Before the current iteration of the Internet, long-distance networking between computers was first accomplished in a 1969 experiment by two research teams at UCLA and Stanford.
Robert Kahn is the co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and was responsible for originating DARPA’s Internet program. Known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Kahn demonstrated the ARPANET by connecting 20 different computers at the International Computer Communication Conference.
Aug 13, 2012 · Bob Kahn, one of two men who designed the protocols that underpin the internet. Photo: Bob Kahn. The world's first internet transmission occurred on October 29, 1969. At least, that's what some...
Apr 20, 2024 · In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network. He didn’t think much about what they would say to one another, though.
Jan 26, 2024 · IEEE Life Fellow Robert E. Kahn, widely known as one of the “fathers of the Internet,” is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor. He is being recognized for “pioneering technical and ...
Biography. Native New Yorker Robert Kahn’s rise to prominent internet pioneer was not preordained. Born during the final years of America’s Great Depression, Kahn’s family moved from their Flatbush, Brooklyn, neighborhood to Flushing, Queens, around 1953, when he was about thirteen.
Nov 7, 2022 · Princeton University will present one of its top alumni awards to Robert Kahn, a co-inventor of the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the internet. Kahn, who earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1964, will receive the James Madison Medal.
Bob Kahn *64 and Vinton Cerf, credited as the “fathers of the Internet,” looked back at their creation and imagined its future before a packed auditorium at the Friend Center March 12 — the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web.
