# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/van-jacobson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:43:24.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/van-jacobson"
name: "Van Jacobson"
slug: "van-jacobson"
description: "Van Jacobson is an American computer scientist, renowned for his work on TCP/IP network performance and scaling. He is one of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack—the technological foundation of today’s Internet. Since 2013, Jacobson is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) working on Named Data Networking."
tagline: "Computer scientist and primary contributor to the TCP/IP protocol"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Van_Jacobson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.74852533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "范·雅各布森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فان جاكوبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson"
    title: "Van Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson"
    title: "Van Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson"
    title: "Van Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson"
    title: "Van Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson"
    title: "Van Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B3%E3%83%96%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "バン・ジェイコブソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "반 제이콥슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Van Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джейкобсон, Ван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Ван Якобсон"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump