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Bob Kahn
Bob Kahn, born in Brooklyn in 1938, is an American electrical engineer who co-invented TCP/IP with Vinton Cerf, founded CNRI, and won the 2004 Turing Award.
Danny Cohen
Danny Cohen (1937–2019) was an Israeli-born American computer scientist who built the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general-purpose computer, sent the first packet voice and video over the ARPANET in 1973, and coined "endianness."
Dina Katabi
Dina Katabi is a Syrian-born computer scientist and electrical engineer at MIT known for wireless networking research and for contactless health sensing using radio signals and AI.
Donald Davies
Donald Watts Davies was a Welsh computer scientist at the UK National Physical Laboratory who invented packet switching in 1965 and coined the term, the technique underlying the Internet.
Glenn Ricart
Glenn Ricart is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer who founded SURAnet, established the first Internet exchange point, and entered the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.
Jonathan S. Turner
Jonathan S. Turner is a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis whose work on high-performance packet switching shaped ATM technology; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
Lawrence Roberts (computer scientist)
Lawrence Roberts was an American computer scientist who supervised the ARPANET, the packet-switching precursor to the Internet, and later founded the first commercial packet-switched carrier, Telenet.
Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster, also known as Nicholas Feamster, is an American computer scientist and Neubauer Professor at the University of Chicago who studies computer networking and Internet security.
Paramvir Bahl
Paramvir (Victor) Bahl is an American computer scientist at Microsoft Research, known for pioneering work in wireless networking and indoor localization, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Paul Mockapetris
Paul Mockapetris is an American computer scientist who invented the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1983 at USC's Information Sciences Institute and operated its first root servers.
Radia Perlman
Radia Perlman is an American network engineer and computer scientist who designed the Spanning Tree Protocol, adopted as IEEE 802.1D in 1990, and the DECnet routing algorithm standardized as IS-IS.
Robert Kahn (computer scientist)
Robert E. Kahn is an American computer scientist who designed the ARPANET system and co-invented TCP/IP with Vinton Cerf, sharing the 2004 Turing Award and founding CNRI in 1986.
Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker is a computer scientist and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered software-defined networking and fair queueing, founded Nicira Networks and Databricks, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Sugih Jamin
Sugih Jamin is a computer scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, known for microeconomic admission control for data networks and co-authoring the 1997 RSVP protocol specification.
Van Jacobson
Van Jacobson is a computer scientist known for the TCP congestion-control algorithms he developed with Mike Karels in the late 1980s, used in over 90% of Internet hosts.
Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf, full name Vinton Gray Cerf, is an American computer scientist born in 1943 who co-designed TCP/IP, the Internet's core protocols, and shared the 2004 Turing Award with Robert Kahn.