Robert Elliot George Kahn | |
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![]() Kahn in Geneva, May 2013 | |
Born | Robert Elliot Kahn December 23, 1938 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Alma mater | City College of New York (B.E.E., 1960) Princeton University (M.A., 1962; Ph.D., 1964) |
Known for | TCP/IP |
Spouse | Patrice Ann Lyons |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Telecommunications, networking |
Institutions | Bell Labs MIT BBN DARPA Corporation for National Research Initiatives |
Thesis | Some problems in the sampling and modulation of signals (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | Bede Liu |
Bob 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]