Van Jacobson | |
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| Known for | work on TCP/IP |
| Awards | IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award |
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| Fields | Computer science |
Van Jacobson is an American computer scientist, renowned for his work on TCP/IP network performance and scaling.[1] He is one of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack—the technological foundation of today’s Internet.[2] Since 2013, Jacobson is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) working on Named Data Networking.
- ^ 2001 SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Achievement to Van Jacobson "for contributions to protocol architecture and congestion control."
- ^ "Van Jacobson Biography", IEEE Global History Network, accessed 31 March 2012