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Robert Kahn (computer scientist)
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (born 1938)
"Bob Kahn" redirects here. For the comic artist born "Robert Kahn", see, see Bob Kane.
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.[1]
Early life and education
Robert Elliot Kahn was born in December 1938 in New York to parents Beatrice Pauline (née Tashker) and Lawrence Kahn in an Ashkenazi Jewish family.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Through his father, he is related to futurist Herman Kahn. After receiving a B.E.E. degree 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, h
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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. Like many of the pioneers of the computer industry, Kahn was a precocious child, completing his high school’s accelerated program in three years, moving on to college at a young age. Kahn recalls that an unspecified heart condition his mother developed as a young child partially determined the course his life took. Due to her illness, and his father’s occupation as a teacher, he had to stay close to home. April 12, 1945, was a dark day for the Kahn family for two reasons. Like the rest of the nation's citizenry, they mourned the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but they also experienced the shock of Mrs. Kahn’s heart attack. Thankfully, it was not fatal.
After high school, Kahn enrolled in Queens College. He remained there for two years before transferring to City College, where he compl
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Robert E. Kahn
Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf created the architecture for the Internet and collaborated on the design of software known as the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP that implements the architecture.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Kahn earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the City College of New York before gaining his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University. Prior to joining the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Kahn designed the first communication network, known as ARPANET, which was based on a new technique called "packet switching" that enabled heterogeneous distributed computers to exchange packets of data. 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. Beginning in 1983, TCP/IP became the standard host protocol on the ARPANET; it was one of the first t
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