Vint cerf e robert kahn biography

The most popular network protocol in the world, the TCP/IP protocol suite, was designed in the first half of the 1970s by two DARPA scientists—Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, persons most often called the fathers of the Internet.

Vinton Gray “Vint” Cerf (born 23 June 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut) obtained his B.S.

in Math and Computer Science at Stanford University in 1965 and went to IBM, where he worked for some two years as a systems engineer, supporting QUIKTRAN—a system to make time-shared computing more economical and widely available for scientists, engineers, and businessmen.

In 1967 he left IBM to attend graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he earned his master’s (in 1970) and Ph.D.

degree (1972) in Computer Science. During his graduate student years, he studied under Professor Gerald Estrin, and worked in Leonard Kleinrock‘s data packet networking group that connected the first two nodes of the ARPANET, the pred