The 2008 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Information Communication Theory and Technology
• Achievement:
  Creation of network architecture and communication protocol for the Internet
• Lecture:
  The Evolving Internet Architecture

Major Honors and Awards

1985	ACM President Award
1986	AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award
1990	Computing Research Association Distinguished Service Award
1991	ACM Software System Award (with Dr. Cerf)
1992	IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
1993	ACM SIGCOMM Award
1994	Marconi Award
1997	IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
1997	U.S. National Medal of Technology (with Dr. Cerf)
2001	Charles Stark Draper Prize (with Dr. Cerf, L. Roberts, L. Kleinrock)
2002	Prince of Asturias Award (with Dr. Cerf, L. Kleinrock, L. Roberts, T. Berners-Lee)
2003	Digital ID World Award
2004	ACM Turing Award (with Dr. Cerf)
2005	C&C Award
2005	The Presidential Medal of Freedom (with Dr. Cerf)
2005	Townsend Harris Medal
2006	Inductee, National Inventors Hall of Fame

Memberships and Fellowships

	Member, National Academy of Engineering
	Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
	Member, New York Academy of Sciences
	Member, Board of Directors, Qualcomm
	Fellow, IEEE,
	Fellow, ACM,
	Fellow, AAAI
	Honorary Fellow, University College London

Honorary Degrees

	Princeton University
	ETH Zurich, Switzerland
	University of Maryland
	University of Pavia, Italy
	George Mason University
	University of Central Florida
	University of Pisa, Italy

Academic Degrees

1960	B.E.E., Electrical Engineering, City College of New York
1962	M.S., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
1964	Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Professional Career

1960-1962	Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA
1964-1966	Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1966-1972	Technical Staff, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
1972-1979	Various Positions-Program Manager, Chief Scientist, Deputy Director, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Processing Techniques Office (DARPA/IPTO)
1979-1985	Director, DARPA/IPTO (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,Information Processing Technology Office)
1986-present	Chairman, CEO & President of Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI))

Title

• Chairman, CEO & President of Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Major Publications

• F.W. Heart, R.E. Kahn, S.M. Ornstein, W.R. Crowther, and D.C. Walden, The Interface Message Processor for the ARPA Computer Network. AFIPS Conference Proceedings, 1970 Spring Joint Computer Conference, vol. 36, pp. 551-567, May 1970.
• V. Cerf and R. Kahn, A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication. IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.22, issue 5, pp. 637-648, May 1974.
• Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf, The Digital Library Project: Volume 1:The World of Knowbots (DRAFT): An Open Architecture for a Digital Library System and a Plan for Its Development. Corporation for National Research Initiatives, March 1988.
• H. Frank, R.E. Kahn, L. Kleinrock, Computer Communication Network Design Experience with Theory and Practice, AFIPS 1972 Spring Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 40, pp. 255-270.
• R.E. Kahn, W.R. Crowther, Flow Central on a Resource Sharing Computer Network. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Problems in the Optimization of Data Communications Systems, pp. 108-116, October, 1971.
• Advances in Packet Radio Technology, IEEE Proceedings , Vol. 66, No. 11, pp. 1468-1496, Nov. 1978.
• Robert Kahn and Robert Wilensky, A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services, International Journal on Digital Libraries, Springer-Verlag, Volume 6, Number 2, pp. 115-123, April 2006 (First disseminated by the authors in May 1995 and reprinted by Springer in 2006)