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Bob Kahn went to which school from 1960 to 1964?
Bob Kahn Robert Elliot Kahn ( born December 23 , 1938 ) is an American electrical engineer , who , along with Vint Cerf , first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ) and the Internet Protocol ( IP ) , the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet . In 2004 , Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP . Background information . Kahn was born in New York to parents Beatrice Pauline ( née Tashker ) and Lawrence Kahn in a Jewish family of unknown European descent . Through his father , he is related to futurist Herman Kahn . After receiving a B.E.E . degree in electrical engineering from the City College of New York in 1960 , Kahn went on to Princeton University where he earned a M.A . in 1962 and Ph.D . in 1964 , both in electrical engineering . Kahn completed a doctoral dissertation titled Some problems in the sampling and modulation of signals . He first worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. , then in 1972 joined the Information Processing Techniques Office ( IPTO ) within DARPA . In the fall of 1972 , he demonstrated the ARPANET by connecting 20 different computers at the International Computer Communication Conference , the watershed event that made people suddenly realize that packet switching was a real technology . He then helped develop the TCP/IP protocols for connecting diverse computer networks . After he became director of IPTO , he started the United States governments billion dollar Strategic Computing Initiative , the largest computer research and development program ever undertaken by the U.S . federal government . After thirteen years with DARPA , he left to found the Corporation for National Research Initiatives ( CNRI ) in 1986 , and as of 2015 is the chairman , CEO and president . The Internet . While working on the SATNET satellite packet network project , he came up with the initial ideas for what later became the Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ) , which was intended as a replacement for an earlier network protocol , NCP , used in the ARPANET . TCP played a major role in forming the basis of open-architecture networking , which would allow computers and networks all over the world to communicate with each other , regardless of what hardware or software the computers on each network used . To reach this goal , TCP was designed to have the following features : - Small sub-sections of the whole network would be able to talk to each other through a specialized computer that only forwarded packets ( first called a gateway , and now called a router ) . - No portion of the network would be the single point of failure , or would be able to control the whole network . - Each piece of information sent through the network would be given a sequence number , to ensure that they were dealt with in the right order at the destination computer , and to detect the loss of any of them . - A computer which sent information to another computer would know that it was successfully received when the destination computer sent back a special packet , called an acknowledgement ( ACK ) , for that particular piece of information . - If information sent from one computer to another was lost , the information would be retransmitted , after the loss was detected by a timeout , which would recognize that the expected acknowledgement had not been received . - Each piece of information sent through the network would be accompanied by a checksum , calculated by the original sender , and checked by the ultimate receiver , to ensure that it was not damaged in any way en route . Vint Cerf joined him on the project in the spring of 1973 , and together they completed an early version of TCP . Later , the protocol was separated into two separate layers : host-to-host communication would be handled by TCP , with Internet Protocol ( IP ) handling internetwork communication . The two together are usually referred to as TCP/IP , and form part of the basis for the modern Internet . In 1992 he co-founded with Vint Cerf the Internet Society , to provide leadership in Internet related standards , education , and policy . Awards . He was elected as a member to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987 for research contributions in computer networks and packet switching , and for creative management contributions to research efforts in computers and communications . He was awarded the SIGCOMM Award in 1993 for visionary technical contributions and leadership in the development of information systems technology , and shared the 2004 Turing Award with Vint Cerf , for pioneering work on internetworking , including . . the Internets basic communications protocols . . and for inspired leadership in networking . He is a recipient of the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award , the Marconi Award , the ACM SIGCOMM Award , the Presidents Award from ACM , the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award , the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal , the IEEE Third Millennium Medal , the ACM Software Systems Award , the Computerworld/Smithsonian Award , the ASIS Special Award and the Public Service Award from the Computing Research Board . He has twice received the Secretary of Defense Civilian Service Award . He was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Pavia in 1998 . He is a recipient of the 1997 National Medal of Technology , the 2001 Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering , the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award , and the 2004 A . M . Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery . Kahn received the 2003 Digital ID World award for the Digital Object Architecture as a significant contribution ( technology , policy or social ) to the digital identity industry . In 2005 he was awarded the Townsend Harris Medal from the Alumni Association of the City College of New York , the Presidential Medal of Freedom , and the C & C Prize in Tokyo , Japan . He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2006 . He was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum in 2006 for pioneering technical contributions to internetworking and for leadership in the application of networks to scientific research . He was awarded the 2008 Japan Prize for his work in Information Communication Theory and Technology ( together with Vinton Cerf ) . - In 2001 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery . - Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf were each inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication ( STC ) in May 2006 . The duo were also awarded with the Harold Pender Award , the highest honor awarded by the University of Pennsylvania School Engineering and Applied Sciences , in February 2010 . He has also served on the board of directors for Qualcomm . In 2012 , Kahn was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society . In 2013 Kahn was one of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering . Honorary degrees . Kahn has received honorary degrees from Princeton University , University of Pavia , ETH Zurich , University of Maryland , George Mason University , the University of Central Florida and the University of Pisa , and an honorary fellowship from University College , London . In 2012 he was also recognized as honorary doctor of Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies , Mechanics and Optics . Articles . - Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn , Al Gore and the Internet , 2000-09-28