Van Jacobson
Computer scientist and primary contributor to the TCP/IP protocol
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Born 1950 · age 76United States
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Updated 2026-07-21
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.
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- 范·雅各布森Low confidencewikipedia · zh.wikipedia.org
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- Van JacobsonLow confidencewikipedia · cs.wikipedia.org