Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

male
TCP/IP, Google employee, Internet pioneer, founding fathers of the Internet, Internet history, internet…ARPANET
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly...
Jon Postel

Jon Postel

male, deceased (1998)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Internet pioneer, IANA, ARPANET, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robustness Principle
Jonathan Bruce Postel made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is...
Ray Tomlinson

Ray Tomlinson

male, 68 years old
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, at sign, QWERTYUIOP, Raymond Tomlinson, Bolt, Beranek and Newman…ARPANET
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (born 1941) is a programmer who implemented an email system in 1971. It was the first system able to send mail between...
Leonard Kleinrock

Leonard Kleinrock

male, 75 years old (Beverly Hills, California, United States)
hierarchical routing, ARPANET, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, computer pioneer, Jewish person, City University of New York
Kleinrock, Leonard Based on his Ph.D. work at MIT on computer networking, Kleinrock was asked to join ARPA to work on a unified network in response...
Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn

male, 70 years old
TCP/IP, Turing Award laureate, Internet pioneer, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Transmission Control Protocol, Internet Protocol…ARPANET
Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton G. Cerf created the IP protocol, the technologies used to...
Paul Mockapetris

Paul Mockapetris

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris, ARPANET, Request for Comments, Information Sciences Institute, domain name system
Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris is the inventor of the Domain Name System. In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System (DNS) architecture in RFCs 882 and 883...

Lawrence Roberts

male
scientist, Prince of Asturias Award winner, ARPANET, ARPA, Vinton Cerf, Lawrence G. Roberts
Lawrence G. Roberts has been described as one of the four persons most closely associated with the birth of the Internet, the other three being...
Steve Crocker

Steve Crocker

male, 65 years old
Trusted Information Systems, The Aerospace Corporation, University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, Request for Comments, University of California, Los Angeles…ARPANET
Steve Crocker (born October 15, 1944 in Pasadena, California) is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and...
J. C. R. Licklider

J. C. R. Licklider

male, deceased (1990)
computer pioneer, Human-computer interaction notables, lick, J. C. R., Artificial intelligence researcher, Internet pioneer…ARPANET
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 - June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one...
Mark Crispin

Mark Crispin

male, 53 years old
Stanford University, Incompatible Timesharing System, Network Control Program, note date of issue, The Telnet Song, Guy Steele…ARPANET
Mark Crispin (born 1956) is a staff member at the University of Washington, noted as the inventor of IMAP. He is the author or co-author of...