Robert Elliot Kahn is an American electrical engineer who, together with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, known together as TCP/IP, the foundational communication protocols that make the modern Internet possible. Kahn earned his PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1964 and worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman, MIT and Bell Labs before joining DARPA Information Processing Techniques Office, where his work on internetworking took shape. Since 1986 he has served as chairman, chief executive officer and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, an organization he founded to support research into the National Information Infrastructure. Kahn shared the ACM Turing Award with Cerf in 2004 for pioneering work on internetworking, including the Internet basic communication protocols, and for inspired leadership in networking, and he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.
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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.
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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.
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field = Telecommunications, networking
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He then helped develop the TCP/IP protocols for connecting diverse computer networks.
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is an American electrical engineer
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Bell Labs MIT BBN DARPA Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Member Of: IEEE Medal of Honor, Infobox: awards
Marconi Prize (1994), National Medal of Tech (1997), National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1997), IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1997), Charles Stark Draper Prize (2001), Prince of Asturias Award (2002), Turing Award (2004), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005), Computer History Museum Fellow (2006), Japan Prize (2008), Harold Pender Award (2010), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2013), IEEE Medal of Honor (2024)
Member Of: Turing Award, Infobox: awards
Marconi Prize (1994), National Medal of Tech (1997), National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1997), IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1997), Charles Stark Draper Prize (2001), Prince of Asturias Award (2002), Turing Award (2004), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005), Computer History Museum Fellow (2006), Japan Prize (2008), Harold Pender Award (2010), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2013), IEEE Medal of Honor (2024)
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In 2004, Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP.
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