Pioneers

Robert Kahn

Electrical Engineer

Citation Formats

General Reference

Computing Atlas. "Robert Kahn." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/robert-kahn.

APA Style

Computing Atlas. (n.d.). Robert Kahn. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/robert-kahn

BibTeX

@misc{computingatlas-robert-kahn,
  author = {Computing Atlas},
  title = {Robert Kahn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/robert-kahn},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

American electrical engineer who, with Vint Cerf, proposed the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, the technical foundation of the modern Internet. He and Cerf shared the 2004 Turing Award and hold the fathers of the Internet title.

Facts

Birth Year

1938 1

Birth Date

1938-12-23 1

Nationality

American 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

ARPANET

Robert Kahn worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman on the Interface Message Processor subnetwork that connected ARPANET's early nodes, before his later work with Vint Cerf on TCP/IP.

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The Internet

Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn co-designed TCP/IP, the Internet's basic communications protocols, work recognized by their joint ACM Turing Award citation for pioneering internetworking; both are commonly called fathers of the Internet.

Source Wikipedia: Robert Kahn