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Robert Kahn (computer scientist)
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (born 1938) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Robert Elliot George Kahn | |
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![]() Kahn in Geneva, May 2013 | |
Born | Robert Elliot Kahn (1938-12-23) December 23, 1938 (age 85) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Alma mater | City College of New York (B.E.E., 1960) Princeton University (M.A., 1962; Ph.D., 1964) |
Known for | TCP/IP |
Spouse | Patrice Ann Lyons |
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Scientific career | |
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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In 2004, Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP.[1]