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.

Feb 11, 2025 · Robert Kahn, American electrical engineer, one of the principal architects, with Vinton Cerf, of the Internet. In 2004 they won the A.M. Turing Award for their ‘pioneering work in internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet’s basic communications protocols, TCP/IP.’

Mar 19, 2024 · Internet pioneers Vint Cerf, Steve Crocker and Bob Kahn reflect on the technology's creation, decades after it was initially conceived as a tool for the U.S. military.

Robert Kahn is the co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and was responsible for originating DARPA’s Internet program. Known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Kahn demonstrated the ARPANET by connecting 20 different computers at the …

Jan 26, 2024 · IEEE Life Fellow Robert E. Kahn, widely known as one of the “fathers of the Internet,” is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor. He is being recognized for “pioneering technical and leadership contributions in packet communication technologies and foundations of the Internet.” The IEEE Foundation sponsors the annual award.

Jun 19, 2024 · Kahn is now chair and CEO of the not-for-profit Corporation for National Research Initiatives (fostering R&D for the National Information Infrastructure).

Apr 20, 2024 · In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network. He didn’t think much about what they would say to one another, though.

Robert Kahn was born 23 December 1938, in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his B.E.E. in electrical engineering at the City College of New York in 1960 and went on to earn his M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1964) in electrical engineering from Princeton.

Jun 20, 2023 · Computer networking pioneer Bob Kahn. IEEE Spectrum recently published a profile of Vint Cerf, who together with Bob Kahn developed what later became known as TCP/IP, the suite of protocols that power the Internet. That article didn’t detail the events leading up to their influential technical collaboration, though.

Robert Elliot "Bob" Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer. Along with Vint Cerf, he invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.