Van Jacobson
Computer scientist and primary contributor to the TCP/IP protocol · United States · On the map · Born 1950 · age 76
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.
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2012Internet Hall of FameAward2002IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications AwardAward2001SIGCOMM AwardAward1950Born
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Since 2013, Jacobson is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) working on Named Data Networking.
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Born 1950 · age 76