Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
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Born 1938 · age 88United States
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Co-invented TCP/IP with Vint Cerf—the protocols that basically make the internet work. Electrical engineer who shaped how data moves across the planet without getting much of the spotlight.
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Robert Elliot Kahn is an American electrical engineer who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.
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