See also: Kahn

Robert E. Kahnn , known as Bob Kahn (born the December 23rd 1938) is an American engineer with the DARPA and Co-inventor with Vinton Cerf of the protocol TCP/IP. Consulting at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, it worked out the first communication protocol per packages to answer the need for quickly connecting different computers in the event of war. It tries out its technology on four sites and thus creates the embryo of the network ARPANet, a military project financed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

After multiple nights spent to write with Vinton Cerf revolutionary programs, it carries out a first demonstration in October 1972. The network ARPANet becomes operational in July 1975, one year after the publication by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf of the principles of the architecture and the basic protocols of future Internet network. Robert Kahn is today president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CRNI), an non-profit making organization which it founded in 1986. Their work was worth with the two men to receive the medal Graham Bell decreed by the Institute of Engineers Électriques and Electronic (IIEE).

Robert Kahn is the inventor of word “Internet”.