Engineers

Bob Kahn

Also Known As Robert Elliot Kahn · Bob Kahn

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Technology and Engineering Atlas. "Bob Kahn." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://technology.interactiveatlas.org/engineers/bob-kahn.

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Technology and Engineering Atlas. (n.d.). Bob Kahn. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://technology.interactiveatlas.org/engineers/bob-kahn

BibTeX

@misc{technologyandengineeringatlas-bob-kahn,
  author = {Technology and Engineering Atlas},
  title = {Bob Kahn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://technology.interactiveatlas.org/engineers/bob-kahn},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Bob Kahn is an American computer scientist who, with Vint Cerf, designed the TCP/IP protocol suite in the 1970s, building on his earlier work on ARPANET's packet-switching architecture at Bolt Beranek and Newman.

Facts

Birth Year

1938 1

Birth Date

1938-12-23 2

Nationality

American 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Field

Software Engineering

Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors

Invented

The Internet

Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick

Sources

1. A History of Technology

Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954

2. Bob Kahn (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationView the Source

Technology: A World History

Daniel R. Headrick, Oxford University Press, 2009

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