On the morning of October 31st, Turing Award winner Dr. Robert E. Kahn and his wife, Patrice Lyons, were invited to visit Peking University.
After meeting with the president of Peking University, Professor Ping Hao, in Linhuxuan, Dr. Robert E. Kahn visited the Software Engineering Institute.
Academician Hong Mei introduced the research results of Peking University team in the "Resource Reflection Mechanism and Efficient Interoperability Technology in Cloud-Client-Convergence Systems". Professor Gang Huang and Professor Xuanzhe Liu presented the research progress of Peking University in the fields of Internetware, Social-Cyber-Physical platform, service computing system, etc. Docker Kahn highly appreciated the research work of Peking University and he believed the research work was at the world's leading level and was highly complementary to the Digital Object Architecture (DOA) which was proposed and advocated by Kahn. Dr. Kahn and Peking University will take this as a starting point for close cooperation.
Dr. Kahn tried the intelligent software experimental platform of Social-Cyber-Physical software with great interests, and had a face-to-face communication with students in a friendly atmosphere.
A Brief Introduction of Robert E. Kahn
Robert E. Kahn was born in 1938 in New York. He is regarded as the “Father of the Internet” as the co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols—the essential communication infrastructure of the Internet, and was responsible for originating DARPA's Internet Program. He once worked on the system design of the ARPNET, the first packet-switched network. And as Director of Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), Kahn conceived the idea of open-architecture networking. He also coined the term National Information Infrastructure (NII) in the mid-1980s, which later became more widely known as the Information Super Highway.
Kahn is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
In 2004, Kahn along with Vinton Cerf won the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, because of his “pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet’s basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking.”
