Robert Elliot Kahn

b. 1938

Robert Elliot Kahn

American electrical engineer and computer scientist.

Is Robert Elliot Kahn Jewish?
Yes, Robert Elliot Kahn is Jewish.
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Kahn co-invented TCP/IP, the fundamental communication protocols of the internet, with Vint Cerf in the 1970s.

He was a principal designer of the ARPANET, and later directed the Information Processing Techniques Office at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

• In 1986, he founded the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI).

• He and Cerf shared the 2004 Turing Award and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.

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