Quotes by Bob Kahn

About Bob Kahn:

Robert Elliot "Bob" Kahn is an American electrical engineer, who, along with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.
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For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

Bob Kahn

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

Bob Kahn

In terms of dangers, such as viruses, fraud or identity theft, I don't think we were thinking about that at all when we got started. If we had been worried about that, the net might have been better today, but we might not have even got there.

Bob Kahn

Author Bio

  • NameBob Kahn
  • DescriptionAmerican Internet pioneer, engineer and computer scientist
  • BornDecember 23, 1938
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComputer Scientist; Engineer
  • AwardsTuring Award; National Medal Of Technology And Innovation; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Webby Lifetime Achievement Award; Princess Of Asturias Award - Technical And Scientific Research; Charles Stark Draper Prize; Harold Pender Award; IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal; EFF Pioneer Award; Queen Elizabeth Prize For Engineering