Ledrew Maurice Wright Jr.

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Born: July 1st , 1991
● Home Town: Joliet,
Illinois
● Field: Computer
science
● Hobbes: Sports,
Games, and Electronics
● Graduated: Grenada
High
Robert E. Kahn
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Born: December 23rd ,
1938 (age 72)
● Field: Computer
Science
● Notable awards:
Presidential Medal of
Freedom Turing Award
● Known for: TCP/IP
 Robert E. Kahn
● He receiving a E.B.B degree in electrical engineering from the City College of New
York in 1960.
● He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964.

● He worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories, and then became an assistant professor at

MIT.
● He then worked at (BBN), where he helped develop the IMP.
● In 1972, he began work at the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO)

within ARPA.
● In the fall of 1972, he demonstrated the ARPANET by connecting 20 different
computers at the International Computer Communication Conference, "a event that
made people suddenly realize that packet switching was a real technology.
● He then helped develop the TCP/IP protocols for connecting diverse computer

networks.
● he became Director of IPTO, he started the United States government's billion dollar

Strategic Computing Initiative, the largest computer research and development

program ever undertaken by the U.S. federal government.
● After thirteen years with DARPA, he left to found the (CNRI) in 1986, and as of 2009

is the Chairman, CEO and President.