Robert Kahn
Bell Laboratories, BBN and IPTO
- Working for BBN he was responsible for the system design of ARPANET.
- In October 1972 he demonstrated the function of the ARPANET for the first time at the International Computer Communication Conference (ICCC), by connecting 40 different computers.
- Dr. Kahn has received a badge of honour from the following universities: Princeton University, University of Pavia, ETH Zurich, University of Maryland, George Mason University, University of Central Florida, University of Pisa and University College in London.
- In 1973 Bob Kahn asked himself: “Look, my problem is how I get a computer that's on a satellite net and a computer on a radio net and a computer on the ARPANET to communicate uniformly with each other without realizing what's going on in between?”
- In late 1973 Vinton Cerf and Kahn finished their work on „A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection“ (TCP), which was published soon in a popular scientific journal.
- They flipped a coin to decide which name to rank first – Cerf won.
- “It is one thing when you plug a socket into the wall and electrons flow; it is another thing when you have to figure out for every electron which direction it takes.”
- CNRI is a non-profit organisation which provides funding for research and development for the national information infrastructure.
Robert Kahn
born in 1938 in New York
Studied at the City College of New York and in Princeton
MIT, BBN, ARPA, CNRI (Corporation for National Research Initiatives)
