Personal Life of Bob Kahn

He was an American Electrical Engineer Born in Brooklyn, New York on the 23rd

December, 1938. Received a BEE(Bachelors of Electrical

Engineering) from City College of New York Earned an M.A and PhD Degrees from

Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively.

Early Life of Bob Kahn

After finishing graduate school, he worked at AT & T Bell Laboratories

Later on became professor at Massachussets Institute Of Technology

Worked at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), where he helped the IMP

Contribution to Computer Science

In 1972, he began writing at the Information Processing Techniques Office(IPTO) within ARPA

In fall 1972 he demonstrated the ARPANET by connecting 20 different Computers at the International Computer Communication Conference

He came up with initial ideas for what later became the Transmission Control Protocol

More Contributions

He was joined by Vint Cerf joined him on the project in the spring of 1973.

Together they completed an early version of the TCP

In 1992 he cofounded with Vint Cerf the internet Society to provide leadership in internet related standards, education and policy

Awards Accolade

Bob Khan won by Bob Khan include; SIGCOMM Award 1993 Honorary Degree at University of Pavia

1998 2002 Prince of Asturias Award 2004 A.M Turing Award 2003 Digital Award

Award Accolades

2005 Townsend Harris Medal and Presidential Medal of freedom

2006 May-National Inventors Hhall of Fame 2006-Computer History Museum 2001-Internet Hall of fame by Internet

Society 2013-Queen Elizabeth Prize For Engr.

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Bob Kahn ;Father Of Internet

Early Life Of Vint Cerf

Known fully as Vinton Gray Cerf Born on the 23rd of June 1943 American born in New Haven, Connecticut Recognized as one of the Fathers of

Internet.

Early Life

He attended Van Nuys High School Obtained a B.S in Mathematics from

Stanford University Attended graduate school at UCLA and got

an M.S and PhD in 1970 and 1972 respectively

Contributions To Computer Science

Contributed to the 'host to host protocol' to for the ARPAnet

While at UCLA he met Robert Bob Kahn who was working on the ARPANet Hardware architecture

Co-designed the DoD TCP/IP protocol suite with kahn

Moved to DARPA, stayed from 1976-1982

More Contributions

As vice President of MCI Digital Information Services, he led the engineering of MCI Mail,first commercial service to be connected to the Internet

In 1992 Cerf and Bob Kahn co-founded the Internet Society to provide leadership in Education,policy and standards related to internet.

Worked for google as Internet Evangelist

Works and Contributions

Cerf is on the board of trustees of ARIN, the Regional Internet Registry of IP addresses for the United States

Member of the governing board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel between 2009-2011

Awards and Accolades

Edward .A. Dickson Alumnus of the year award from UCLA

1996-Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award Certificate of Merit from The Franklin

Institute Living Legend Medal in April 2000 May 2006-Inducted into the National

Inventors Hall Of Fame

Awards and Accolades

Most significantly Vint Cerf and Kahn were awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom by President George Bush for their contributions to creating and sustaining development of Internet Protocols and continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of internetworking.

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Photograph of Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf with President George Bush