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Bob Kahn
Also Known As Robert Elliot Kahn · Bob Kahn
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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.
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Did Bob Kahn design the Internet's core protocols on his own?
Kahn and Vint Cerf designed TCP/IP together in the 1970s.
No. Bob Kahn designed the TCP/IP protocol suite in the 1970s together with Vint Cerf. He brought earlier experience from Bolt Beranek and Newman, where he had worked on the packet-switching architecture of ARPANET. Wikipedia describes the joint effort as the two of them completing an early version of TCP, which was later separated into two layers.
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Co-designed the TCP/IP protocols underlying the internets networking hardware and architecture.
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick
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1. A History of Technology
Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954View the Source 2. Bob Kahn (Wikipedia)
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Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) 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.
Technology: A World History
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