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Van Jacobson

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Van Jacobson is an American computer scientist renowned for his work on TCP/IP network performance and scaling, and one of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack, the technological foundation of today's Internet. Since 2013 he has been an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, working on Named Data Networking.

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Birth Year
1950 1
Award
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award 1
Award
Internet Hall of Fame 1
Award
SIGCOMM Award 1
Contribution Kind
Network 2
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Credited

CoDel, Algorithms
Source CoDel (Wikipedia)
Source Random early detection (Wikipedia)

In Field

Source Van Jacobson (Wikipedia)

Invented By

CoDel, Algorithms
Source CoDel (Wikipedia)
Source Random early detection (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikidata: Van Jacobson
  • Wikidata Q2539951, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q2539951 P569 (date of birth)
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2. Van Jacobson (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox: known_for
    Work on TCP/IP
  • In Field: Computer Networking, Lead paragraph
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CoDel (Wikipedia)
  • Invented By: CoDel, Lead
    developed by Van Jacobson and Kathleen Nichols
  • Credited: CoDel, Lead sentence
    developed by Van Jacobson and Kathleen Nichols
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Random early detection (Wikipedia)
  • Invented By: Random early detection, Lead or history
    It was invented in the early 1990s by Sally Floyd and Van Jacobson.
  • Credited: Random early detection, Lead or history
    It was invented in the early 1990s by Sally Floyd and Van Jacobson.
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