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Robert Elliot Kahn, American engineer, computer scientist. Achievements include system design of the Arpanet, the first packet-switched network; co-invention of the TCP/Intellectual Property Internet network protocol.

Background

Kahn, Robert Elliot was born on December 23, 1938 in Brooklyn.

Education

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.

Career

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.

Achievements

  • Robert Elliot Kahn has been listed as a notable engineer, computer scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

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).

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Awards

  • Named to National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2006. Recipient Marconi award, Internet Society, 1994, National Medal Technology, 1997, Prince of Asturias award, 2002, Digital Idaho World award, 2003, Townsend Harris medal, City College of New York Alumni Association, 2005, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2005, Computer & Communications prize, KEC Foundation, Tokyo, 2005, Webby Lifetime Achievement award, International Academy Digital Arts & Sciences, 2006, Japan prize, 2008, Harold Pender award, University Pennsylvania, 2010, Harry Goode Memorial award, American Federation Information Processing Society, Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership award, Public Service award, Computing Research Board, United States Secretary of Defense Civilian Service award.