Robert Kahn (computer scientist)

Robert Elliot George Kahn
Kahn in Geneva, May 2013
Born	Robert Elliot Kahn (1938-12-23) December 23, 1938 (age 85) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	City College of New York (B.E.E., 1960) Princeton University (M.A., 1962; Ph.D., 1964)
Known for	TCP/IP
Spouse	Patrice Ann Lyons
Awards	Marconi Prize (1994) National Medal of Tech (1997) National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1997) IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1997) Charles Stark Draper Prize (2001) Prince of Asturias Award (2002) Turing Award (2004) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005) Computer History Museum Fellow (2006) Japan Prize (2008) Harold Pender Award (2010) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2013) IEEE Medal of Honor (2024)
Scientific career
Fields	Telecommunications, networking
Institutions	Bell Labs MIT BBN DARPA Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Thesis	Some problems in the sampling and modulation of signals  (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Bede Liu

Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938^[1]) 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.^[2]