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[1995 Version]

Robert E. Kahn is President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in 1986 after a thirteen year term at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). CNRI was created as a not-for-profit organization to provide leadership and funding for research and development of the national information infrastructure.

After receiving a B.E.E. from the City College of New York in 1960, Dr. Kahn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively. He worked on the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and then became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He took a leave of absence from MIT to join Bolt Beranek and Newman, where he was responsible for the design and development of the Arpanet, the first packet-switched network. In 1972 he moved to ARPA, subsequently became Director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) and initiated the United States government's billion dollar Strategic Computing Program, the largest computer research and development program ever undertaken by the federal government. He is a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and was responsible for originating the Internet Program.

Dr. Kahn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a former member of its Computer Science and Technology Board, a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAAI, a recipient of the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award, the Marconi Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the President's Award from ACM, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award, the ACM Software Systems Award, the ASIS Special Award and the Public Service Award from the Computing Research Board; he was twice the recipient of the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award. (Kahn, 1995)

on the web

Bio from Bush Symposium, 1995
http://www.eecs.mit.edu/AY95-96/events/bush/rk.html

Robert Kahn's Home on the Web at CNRI
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/home/bob.html

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