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Bob Kahn
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American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
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Robert E. Kahn is an American computer scientist, inventor, and electrical engineer born in New York City in 1938. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and was educated at the City College of New York and Princeton University. Kahn has worked as an employee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His notable works include the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet protocol suite.
Kahn has received several honors, including the Turing Award, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the Harold Pender Award, and the EFF Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Association for Computing Machinery. His archives are held at the Computer History Museum.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1941-05-24
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,223x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,783x
- PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT AND DISENGAGEMENT AT WORK.
· 1990 · cited 11,057x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
- Integrated Genomic Analysis Identifies Clinically Relevant Subtypes of Glioblastoma Characterized by Abnormalities in PDGFRA, IDH1, EGFR, and NF1
· 2010 · cited 6,482x
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Key facts
- Born
- Robert Elliot Kahn , ( 1938-12-23 ) December 23, 1938 (age 87) , New York City, U.S.
- Education
- City College of New York ( BS ), Princeton University ( MA , PhD )
- Known for
- TCP/IP
- Spouse
- Patrice Ann Lyons
- 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
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
In 2004, Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP.
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