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Robert E. Kahn
(23 Dec 1938 - )
American computer scientist who co-created the TCP/IP packet-switching protocols in the late 1960s, which remain central to the operations that exchange information on the Internet.
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Science Quotes by Robert E. Kahn (6 quotes)
I believe in the not-too-distant future, people are going to learn to trust their information to the Net more than they now do, and be able to essentially manage very large amounts and perhaps their whole lifetime of information in the Net with the notion that they can access it securely and privately for as long as they want, and that it will persist over all the evolution and technical changes.
— Robert E. Kahn
From transcript of interview by Steve Inskeep, 'Computing Pioneers Discuss the State of the Net', Morning Edition (22 Aug 2005) on npr.org website.
I can’t say I’m particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we’re now seeing, whether it’s filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.
— Robert E. Kahn
From transcript of interview by Steve Inskeep, 'Computing Pioneers Discuss the State of the Net', Morning Edition (22 Aug 2005) on npr.org website.
I think we’re just going to have to live with the microcosm in the electronic world of the kind of things that we might see in the physical world.
— Robert E. Kahn
From transcript of interview by Steve Inskeep, 'Computing Pioneers Discuss the State of the Net', Morning Edition (22 Aug 2005) on npr.org website.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
— Robert E. Kahn
Epigraph, without source, in Donna Fisher, Power Networking: 59 Secrets for Personal & Professional Success (2nd ed. 2000), 189.
The Internet is a microcosm of society.
— Robert E. Kahn
From transcript of interview by Steve Inskeep, 'Computing Pioneers Discuss the State of the Net', Morning Edition (22 Aug 2005) on npr.org website.
You can’t gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it. It will be what the businesses offer, it will be new products and services. It’s the new ideas that show up that nobody thought of before.
— Robert E. Kahn
From interview with John Markoff, 'Viewing Where the Internet Goes', New York Times (30 Dec 2013).
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- 23 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Kahn's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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