Robert A. Kahn





This is a "stub" for a page about Robert Kahn.


 * * Cerf, Vinton. Vinton G. Cerf http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/activities/Public_Talks/20081017-Cerf.php. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. The Turing award is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science." In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the Annenberg Center for Communications at USC and the National Academy of Engineering.

Email Note from Bob Albrecht
Here is some information about Bob Kahn provided in a 8/27/07 email message from Bob Albrecht to Dave Moursund:


 * Bob Kahn and I began together in 1962. Bob was a sophomore at George Washington High School. During 1962 - 1964, Bob and three other students:


 * Wrote papers that they presented at a regional meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, the first time that high school students had presented at that regional meeting.


 * Ran a computer education exhibit at the 1963 (I think) Association for Computing Machinery annual meeting in Denver.


 * Taught FORTRAN programming to high school teachers and students in an NSF-funded program at University of Colorado Denver Center.


 * Later Bob ran the Educational Computing program at Lawrence Hall of Science. 1970 or there about. Search for Bob Kahn at:


 * SPACEWAR - by Stewart Brand - Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums. This is a 12/7/1972 article in Rolling Stone. Quoting from the article:


 * Finally, there are starting to be places where one can step in off the street and compute, and some of these have newsletters, games, etc., that they can send you. Write to:


 * Bob Albrecht, People's Computer Company, Box 310, Menlo Park, California 94025. (Publishes an outstanding newsletter on recreational and educational uses of computers. $4 for 5 issues/year.)
 * Bob Kahn, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. (16 terminals available at 50 cents/hour. Publishes a newsletter, Kaleidoscope; has some interesting games.)
 * Rusty Whitney, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, 4015 SW Canyon Road, Portland, Oregon 97221. (Public access computers. Has better software for the PDP-8 than DEC has. And has new PDP-11.)
 * Bill Mayhew, The Children's Museum, Jamaica Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02150. (Public access computer games.)


 * http://opencollector.org/history/homebrew/Chapter9.html Quoting from this reference:


 * Typical of the people who were galvanized by the Altair article was a thirty-year-old Berkeley building contractor with long blond hair and gleaming green eyes named Steve Dompier. A year before the Popular Electronics article had come out he had driven up the steep, winding road above Berkeley which leads to the Lawrence Hall of Science, a huge, ominous, bunker-like concrete structure which was the setting for the movie The Forbin Project, about two intelligent computers who collaborate to take over the world. This museum and educational center was funded by a grant to support literacy in the sciences, and in the early 1970s its computer education program was run by one of Bob Albrecht's original medicine-show barkers, Bob Kahn. It had a large HP time-sharing computer connected to dozens of gunmetal-gray teletype terminals, and when Steve Dompier first visited the hall he stood in line to buy a fifty-cent ticket for an hour of computer time; as if he were buying a ride on a roller coaster. He looked around the exhibits while waiting for his turn on a terminal, and when it was time he stepped into a room with thirty clattering teletypes. It felt like being inside a cement mixer. He flicked on the terminal, and with violent confidence the line printer hammered out the words, HELLO. WHAT'YOUR NAME. He typed in STEVE. The line printer hammered out HI STEVE WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO, and Steve Dompier was blown away.


 * Woz


 * Late 60s or early 70s, Bob taught with LeRoy and me:


 * University of California courses for teachers: Computers in the Classroom and Games Computers Play


 * Huntington Workshops


 * After People's Computer Company became People's Computers, Bob was the editor after Phyllis Cole.