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Bob Kahn
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American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
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Robert Kahn is an American computer scientist, inventor, and electrical engineer born in New York City in 1938. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and has been educated at City College of New York and Princeton University. His professional career includes employment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kahn is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
His notable works include the ARPANET, the Transmission Control Protocol, and the Internet protocol suite. Kahn has received the Turing Award, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the Harold Pender Award, and the EFF Award. He is recognized in the Turing Award collection, the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Presidential Medal Of Freedom collection. His archives are held at the Computer History Museum.
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Key facts
- Born
- Robert Elliot Kahn , ( 1938-12-23 ) December 23, 1938 (age 87) , New York City, U.S.
- Education
- City College of New York ( BS ), Princeton University ( MA , PhD )
- Known for
- TCP/IP
- Spouse
- Patrice Ann Lyons
- Fields
- Telecommunications , networking
- Institutions
- Bell Labs , MIT , BBN , DARPA , Corporation for National Research Initiatives
- Thesis
- Some problems in the sampling and modulation of signals (1964)
- Doctoral advisor
- Bede Liu
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Kahn
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Award
- IEEE Medal of Honor
- Notable work
- Internet protocol suite
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- computer science
- Image
- Bob Kahn.jpg
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- Commons category
- Robert E. Kahn
- date of birth
- 1938-12-23
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Erdős number
- 3
- streaming media URL
- www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102657964
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- different from
- Robert Kahn
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
In 2004, Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP.
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