Robert Elliot Kahn
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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 1992 he co-founded the Internet Society with Vint Cerf, to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy.
In 2004, Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP.