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Bob Kahn (born 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.’.
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.
Robert Kahn was born 23 December 1938, in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his B.E.E. in electrical engineering at the City College of New York in 1960 and went on to earn his M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1964) in electrical engineering from Princeton.
Robert Kahn was born in New York, New York, in 1938. He holds a BEE from the City College of New York (1960), and MA and PhD degrees from Princeton (1962, 1964). Together with Vint Cerf, Kahn is known as "the father of the Internet."
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.
In collaboration with Vinton Cerf, a computer scientist, he created the Internet architecture, which allows multiple heterogeneous networks (and their computers) to communicate with each other. Their work resulted in a protocol, now known as TCP/IP, that implemented key elements of the architecture.
While Director of IPTO he initiated the United States government’s billion dollar Strategic Computing Program, the largest computer research and development program ever undertaken by the federal government. Dr. Kahn conceived the idea of open-architecture networking.
For thousands of different computers to communicate reliably with each other over vast distances with impeccable stability, a more robust and dependable set of universal standards was required. That is where Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf came into the picture.
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...
