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Robert Kahn
Co-designing TCP/IP with Vint Cerf and helping establish the Internet’s open network architecture.
ARPANET demonstration · TCP design
- Born
- 23 December 1938
- Birthplace
- New York City, United States
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Robert Kahn
Kahn helped turn packet networking into a practical system and led research that connected unlike networks. His work combined engineering, research management and the development of digital infrastructure.
Early life
New York education
Earned an electrical engineering degree at City College of New York in 1960.
Princeton doctorate
Completed graduate studies in electrical engineering, receiving his PhD in 1964.
Career
- 1960s
BBN
Worked on the engineering of the ARPANET packet network.
- 1972
DARPA
Joined the research agency and developed ideas for connecting networks.
- 1986
CNRI
Founded the Corporation for National Research Initiatives to advance information infrastructure.
Contributions
ARPANET demonstration
Helped demonstrate packet networking publicly at an international computing conference.
TCP design
Co-authored the internetworking paper with Vint Cerf.
Digital objects
Developed infrastructure for identifying and managing information as digital objects.
Beyond engineering
Research institutions
Helped establish the Internet Society alongside other networking pioneers.
Shared recognition
Received the 2004 Turing Award jointly with Vint Cerf for their work on internet communication.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Institutional biography and contributions ↗Photo: Вени Марковски | Veni Markovski. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
