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  Draper Laboratory - Draper Prize 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kahn and Roberts discussed their role in the development of the Internet and their predictions for its future at a lecture hosted by Boston's Museum of Science on May 1, 2001.
Dr. Robert E. Kahn is chair, chief executive officer, and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Reston, Va., a nonprofit organization that provides leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII).
Robert E. Kahn is chair, chief executive officer, and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, Va., a nonprofit organization that provides leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII).
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 Bob Kahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23, 1938), along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocol, the technology used to transmit information on the modern Internet.
Portrait photo of Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23, 1938), along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocol, the technology used to transmit information on the modern Internet.
Biography of Robert E. Kahn on the Corporation for National Research Initiatives' website.
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 Robert Kahn, TCP/IP Co-Designer
Robert (Bob) Kahn laid the open architecture foundations for the TCP/IP networking protocol, providing the Internet with one of its most distinctive features and what has proven to be a key advantage.
In 1972, Kahn was hired by Lawrence Roberts at the IPTO to work on networking technologies, and in October he gave a demonstration of an ARPANET network connecting 40 different computers at the International Computer Communication Conference, making the network widely known for the first time to people from around the world.
Kahn has continue to nurture the development of the Internet over the years through shepherding the standards process and related activities, and is now President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), a not-for-profit organization which performs research in the public interest on strategic development of network-based information technologies.
www.livinginternet.com /i/ii_kahn.htm   (625 words)

  
 Robert E.Kahn
Robert E.Kahn was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 23, 1938.
A fellow of the IEEE, Dr. Kahn is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of AAAI, a recipient of the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award, the Marconi Award, the President's Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award, and the Computerworld/Smithsonian Award.
Kahn is a former member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and the Presidents Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure.
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Kahn observes that "the introduction of a message-switched distributed communications network is....a service offering of a radically different nature...." from the circuit switching used for the telephone system.(Kahn, pg 149) This new technology was greeted by a hostile reaction from those involved with the development of telephone technology.
Robert E. Kahn and William R. Crowther, "Flow Control in a Resource-Sharing Computer Network," in Proc of the Second ACM IEEE Symposium on Problems in the Optimization of Data Communication System, Palo Alto, California, October 1971, pg 541-542.
Robert E. Kahn and William R. Crowther, "Flow Control in a Resource-Sharing Computer Network," in Proc of the Second ACM IEEE Symposium on Problems in the Optimization of Data Communication System, Palo Alto, California, October 1971, pp 539-546.
www.columbia.edu /~rh120/other/birth_internet.txt   (7475 words)

  
 Robert Kahn Awarded National Medal of Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Robert E. Kahn was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Clinton in a White House Ceremony on Tuesday, December 16, 1997.
Internet pioneers Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf received the medal from President Clinton for their joint development of TCP/IP protocol, the common computer language that gave birth to the Internet, and for continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of internetworking.
Kahn, president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, and Cerf, MCI senior vice president of Internet Architecture and Engineering, were among 14 laureates from around the country distinguished during the Presidential Award Ceremonies for the National Medal of Technology and the National Medal of Science.
www.cnri.reston.va.us /award/award.html   (356 words)

  
 StarLevel, Inc. - History of the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kahn began work on a communications-oriented set of operating system principles while at BBN and documented some of his early thoughts in an internal BBN memorandum entitled "Communications Principles for Operating Systems".
Kahn had intended that the TCP protocol support a range of transport services, from the totally reliable sequenced delivery of data (virtual circuit model) to a datagram service in which the application made direct use of the underlying network service, which might imply occasional lost, corrupted or reordered packets.
Robert E. Kahn is President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
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 IEEE History Center - Legacies: Robert E. Kahn
Robert E. Kahn was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 23, 1938.
A Fellow of the IEEE, Dr. Kahn is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of AAAI, a recipient of the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award, the Marconi Award, the President's Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award, and the Computerworld/ Smithsonian Award.
Kahn was co-recipient, along with Dr. Vint Cerf of the 1997 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 'For conceiving the Internet architecture and protocols, and for the vision and sustained leadership that led to the current Internet.'
www.ieee.org /organizations/history_center/legacies/kahn.html   (533 words)

  
 AEI-Brookings Joint Center
He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, president of the Yale University Council, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle, and a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Kahn served as adviser to President Carter on inflation, as chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and as chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission.
Kahn has served on a variety of public and private boards and commissions.
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 Smart Computing Article - Kahle, Brewster to Keck, Donald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kahn, Robert E. New York native Robert Kahn is known as one of the pioneers of the Internet.
Kahn also visualized that messages sent via a connection would have Error Recovery, where lost bits of data would be re-sent until they were received.
Kahn was still active in the computing field at the end of 2001.
www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/r0605/43r05/43r05.asp&guid=hhk69gc0   (3995 words)

  
 Omni: Robert E. Kahn - computer scientist - Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kahn was a faculty member at MIT when he took what was intended to be a brief sabbatical to work at the engineering firm, Bolt Beranek and Newman in Boston in 1966.
Kahn: That's almost like asking, "If you could have a week's vacation on Mars, how would you spend your time?" There are so many unknowns any time you introduce a new technological capability.
Kahn: Any technology can have an adverse affect on society, and one has to be vigilant to ensure that doesn't happen.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1430/is_n3_v15/ai_12935831   (1382 words)

  
 ICANN | ICANN Chairman of the Board Wins Prestigious Turing Award
Kahn, prior to his arrival at ARPA, led the architectural development of the ARPANET packet switches while at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), and had showcased the ARPANET in 1972, at the first International Conference on Computer Communications.
Kahn is Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), a not-for-profit organization for research in the public interest on strategic development of network-based information technologies, which he founded in 1986.
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn share a number of awards, including the 1991 ACM Software System Award, the 2001 Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award, and the 1997 National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton.
www.icann.org /announcements/announcement-16feb05.htm   (1203 words)

  
 Reinventing The Internet - Computerworld
Internet pioneer Robert E. Kahn is chairman, CEO and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, a nonprofit organization established to "provide leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure."
Robert E. Kahn co-invented TCP/IP and managed the development of the Arpanet - the forerunner of the Internet - at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the early 1970s.
Now, as president of the nonprofit Corporation for National Research Initiatives in Reston, Va., Kahn is deep into a "reinvention of the Internet one layer up." He has developed a framework for interoperability of heterogeneous information systems that aims to make digital information a "first-class citizen" on the Internet.
www.computerworld.com /printthis/2001/0,4814,63285,00.html   (805 words)

  
 Press Releases - April 30, 1997
Robert Ledley graduated from Columbia University and received a D.D.S. from New York University.
When Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn published their paper on internetworking via packet switching technology in 1974, few shared their vision of computer systems communicating with each other.
Robert Kahn graduated from City College of New York and earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
www.technology.gov /PRel/p_pr43097.htm   (1556 words)

  
 2001 Draper Prize Recipients' Bios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Robert Kahn is chairman, chief executive officer, and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in 1986 after a 13-year term at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Kahn worked on the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., and became an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Lawrence Roberts has a bachelor of science, a master of science, and a doctorate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
www.engineergirl.org /NAE/awardscom.nsf/weblinks/DWHT-4T7KER?OpenDocument   (1244 words)

  
 Stratford University WMAL Tech Talk June 17, 2000
Bob Kahn is Chairman, CEO, and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (www.cnri.reston.va.us).
Kahn's decision to link these networks as separate and independent networks resulted in the creation of new internetworking technologies.
Kahn collaborated with Cerf on both the protocols and the architecture of this Internetworking project.
www.stratford.edu /techtalk06172000.html   (1825 words)

  
 Robert E. Kahn - TheBestLinks.com - City College of New York, DARPA, Internet, Internet Protocol, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Robert E. Kahn, City College of New York, DARPA, Internet, Internet Protocol...
Robert E. Kahn, along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocol, the technology used to transmit information on the modern Internet.
Biography of Robert E. Kahn (http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/bios/kahn.html) on the Corporation for National Research Initiatives' website.
www.thebestlinks.com /Robert_E._Kahn.html   (510 words)

  
 May 2000 - Commencement 2000
As the highest honor bestowed on America's leading innovators, the medal was awarded to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for their design of the communications protocol that gave birth to the Internet.
Robert E. Kahn is chairman, CEO, and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), a not-for-profit organization he founded to provide leadership and funding for research and development of the Information Superhighway.
Kahn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a former member of the President's Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure.
www.gmu.edu /news/gazette/0005/commence_2000.html   (1177 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Toward a National Research Network (1988)
Robert M.White is president of the National Academy of Engineering.
The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public.
Frank Press and Dr. Robert M.White are chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the National Research Council.
www.nap.edu /openbook/NI000393/html/R1.html   (1111 words)

  
 Message from the President
IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal was presented on June 28, 1996 to Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf for their pioneering contributions to the creation of the Internet [1].
This will soon be followed by award of the U.S. National Medal of Technology, in the Technology Transfer category, to this extraordinary pair of researchers and implementers.
His first assignment was to help Larry Roberts, also a distinguished pioneer who had been hired by ARPA to run the ARPANET project, to take responsibility for a satellite packet network project called SATNET, and a ground-based packet radio project.
www.comsoc.org /~ci/public/1997/jul/message.html   (1715 words)

  
 UMBC News
Kahn founded CNRI in 1986 after a thirteen-year term at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Kahn conceived the idea of open-architecture networking and is a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and was responsible for originating DARPA's Internet Program which he led for the first three years.
Kahn is the 1997 recipient of the White House National Medal of Technology, a two-time winner of the Secretary of Defense Civilian Service Award, and the 2001 Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering.
www.umbc.edu /tmp/news/archives/2001/05   (4440 words)

  
 Workshop on Internet Governance - Biographies
Kahn also coined the term National Information Infrastructure (NII) in the mid 1980s which later became more widely known as the Information Super Highway.
In his recent work, Dr. Kahn has been developing the concept of a digital object infrastructure as a key middleware component of the NII.
Kahn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a former member of its Computer Science and Technology Board, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAAI, a fellow of ACM.
www.itu.int /osg/spu/forum/intgov04/bios/kahn-bio.html   (476 words)

  
 The Tech | Visit | The National Medal of Technology | Laureate Profile for Vinton Gray Cerf and Robert E. Kahn
During that time, Cerf and Kahn supported the idea of an inter-network that was freely available to the public, not controlled by any one vendor.
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn wearing their medals at the award ceremony, 1996.
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn in the 1970s, when the Internet was nothing more than an inspired idea.
www.thetech.org /nmot/detail.cfm?id=31&st=showall&qt=&kiosk=Off   (190 words)

  
 Research Review Day
Dr. Kahn will review key attributes of that open architecture in the context of its application to agent systems and the management of information.
Dr. Robert E. Kahn, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI).
Kahn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a former member of its Computer Science and Technology Board, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, a Fellow of AAAI, and a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee.
www.enee.umd.edu /RRD   (339 words)

  
 The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) Special Event - Reliability, Environment, and Remaking Electricity Market - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Robert Kahn, founder and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), was the first featured speaker in The Progress and Freedom Foundation's "Innovation Agenda 2005" CEO Lunch series.
Kahn discussed hot-button Internet policy topics concerning Internet governance, the Internet standards process, evolution of the Internet, and the role of the "Digital Object Architecture" in managing information on the net.
Kahn, along with Vint Cerf, developed the TCP/IP protocol for the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the early 1970s, and that open protocol has allowed the Internet to become what it is today.
www.tvworldwide.com /events/pff/050112   (553 words)

  
 The Digital Research Initiative
Robert E. Kahn, (left) coined the term "information infrastructure." He was responsible for the design and development of the ARPAnet at Bolt Beranek and Newman in the late 1960s.
In 1986, Kahn started with Vinton G. Cerf the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, a nonprofit organization, engaged in the design, research and development of an experimental info rmation infrastructure.
Kahn developed with Cerf a set of technical standards, called protocols, that multiple networks could use.
www.ibiblio.org /team/history/pioneers/pioneers.html   (2407 words)

  
 IEEE Awards Alexander Graham Bell Medal to Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kahn is Chairman, CEO, and President of CNRI, which he founded in 1986 after a 13-year career with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he was co-developer, with Cerf, of TCP/IP.
Kahn is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, and a recipient of a dozen other distinguished awards.
The Alexander Graham Bell Medal will be presented to Cerf and Kahn during the IEEE Honors Ceremony at the national meeting in Cleveland in June 1997.
www.sdsc.edu /SDSCwire/v3.4/ieee_award.html   (289 words)

  
 The New York Times > Technology > Laurels for Giving the Internet Its Language
Robert E. Kahn, left, is seen as more intense than his counterpart.
In honoring Dr. Kahn and Dr. Cerf, the computing association validates one view in the highest ranks of computer science that their work made the Internet possible.
In that early brainstorming session, Dr. Kahn, 66, and Dr. Cerf, 61, who are known in the computing field for their Watson-and-Crick-like teamwork, created the structure for Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, a set of communications standards that enable different computer networks to share information, giving the Internet its power and reach.
www.nytimes.com /2005/02/16/technology/16internet.html?ex=1266296400&en=83045dde373e495d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (890 words)

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