Background
Kahn, Robert Elliot was born on December 23, 1938 in Brooklyn.
Kahn, Robert Elliot was born on December 23, 1938 in Brooklyn.
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, City College of New York, 1960. Master of Arts, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1964.
Member technical staff Bell Laboratories. Assistant professor electrical engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Senior scientist Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Massachusetts.
Director information processing techniques Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Arlington, Virginia, 1972—1986. Founder, president Corporation National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, since 1986, also chairman, Chief Executive Officer. Member advisory committee on international communications and information policy United States Department State.
Past member President's Advisory Council on National Information Infrastructure.
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Koji Kobayashi award, Alexander Graham Bell medal, Third Millennium medal), Association Computing Machinery (President's award 1985, SIGCOMM award 1993, A.M. Turning award 2004, Software Systems award), American Association Artificial Intelligence, Society Technology Communications (honorary). Member: National Academy of Engineering (Charles Stark Draper prize 2001).