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Robert E. Kahn
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ROBERT E. KAHN is
Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in 1986 after a 13-year term at the United
States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). CNRI is a
not-forprofit organization for research and development of the National Information
Infrastructure.
Following a Bachelor
of Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York in 1960, and MA and
PhD degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively, Dr Kahn
worked at AT&T and Bell Laboratories before he became Assistant Professor
of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He took a leave of absence from MIT to join Bolt Beranek and Newman, where he
was responsible for the system design of the Arpanet, the first packet-switched
network.
In 1972, Dr Kahn moved
to DARPA and subsequently became Director of its Information Processing
Techniques Office. There he initiated the United States government’s Strategic Computing
Program. Dr Kahn conceived the idea of open architecture networking. He is a
co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, and was responsible for originating DARPA’s
Internet Program.
More recently, Kahn
has developed the concept of a digital object architecture to provide a framework
for interoperability of heterogeneous information systems. He is also
co-inventor of Knowbot programmes, mobile software agents in the network environment.
Among his numerous
awards, Kahn received the ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society
Award in 2010, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, and the National
Medal of Technology in 1997.
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