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Bob Kahn

American Internet pioneer (born 1938)

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.²

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Born Dec 23, 1938.¹

About

In 2004, Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP.

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Companies

Internet SocietyFounder³⁵

Early life and education

1960City College of New York bachelor's degree; electrical engineering³
1962Princeton University master's degree³
1964Princeton University doctorate³

Robert Elliot Kahn was born in December 1938 in Brooklyn, New York City to parents Beatrice Pauline (née Tashker) and Lawrence Kahn in an Ashkenazi Jewish family. Through his father, he is related to futurist Herman Kahn. After receiving a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the City College of New York in 1960, Kahn went on to Princeton University where he earned a M.A. in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1964, both in electrical engineering. At Princeton, he was advised by Bede Liu and completed a doctoral dissertation titled "Some problems in the sampling and modulation of signals."

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Career

Occupation: electrical engineer, inventor, computer scientist, patent inventor, engineer.⁷

Date not recordedWorked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology⁴
Date not recordedFounded Corporation for National Research Initiatives⁵
Date not recordedFounded Internet Society⁶

Known for: Transmission Control Protocol, ARPANET, Internet protocol suite.^{8 9}

Kahn first worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., where he was the principal designer of the ARPANET. In the fall of 1972, he demonstrated the ARPANET by connecting 20 different computers at the International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC), "the watershed event that made people suddenly realize that packet switching was a real technology."

In 1972, Kahn joined the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) within DARPA. He then helped develop the TCP/IP protocols for connecting diverse computer networks. After he became director of IPTO, he started the United States government's billion dollar Strategic Computing Initiative, the largest computer research and development program ever undertaken by the U.S. federal government.

After thirteen years with DARPA, Kahn left to found the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in 1986, and as of 2022 remains its chairman, CEO and president.

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Personal life

BornDec 23, 1938, New York City¹⁰
CitizenshipUnited States^{11 12}

Awards

2023James Madison Medal^{13 34}
2013Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering¹³
2012Internet Hall of Fame^{13 33}
2010Harold Pender Award^{13 32}
2008Japan Prize^{13 31}
2006National Inventors Hall of Fame^{13 30}
2006Webby Lifetime Achievement Award^{13 29}
2005Presidential Medal of Freedom^{13 28}
2004Turing Award^{13 27}
2002Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research^{13 26}

More awards (18)

2001ACM Fellow^{13 24}
2001Charles Stark Draper Prize^{13 25}
1997IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal^{13 22}
1997National Medal of Technology and Innovation^{13 23}
1996Computer Pioneer Award^{13 21}
1994Marconi Prize¹³
1993SIGCOMM Award¹³
1992EFF Award^{13 20}
1992IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for Transmission Control Protocol, Internet Protocol^{13 19}
1991ACM Software System Award^{13 18}
1990AAAI Fellow^{13 17}
1986Harry H. Goode Memorial Award^{13 16}
Date not recordedBenjamin Franklin Medal¹³
Date not recordedComputer History Museum Fellow¹³
Date not recordedIEEE Medal of Honor^{13 15}
Date not recordedPrincess of Asturias Awards¹³
Date not recordedhonorary doctor of ETH Zürich^{13 14}
Date not recordedhonorary doctorate from Princeton University¹³

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