Bob Kahn
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The co-designer of TCP/IP with Vint Cerf, and the 2004 Turing Award co-recipient, cited for the design and implementation of the internet's basic communications protocols.
The Turing citation is specific about what the pair actually did: they formulated the design principles of internetworking, specified TCP/IP against those requirements, prototyped it, and coordinated the early implementations. That last verb matters more than it looks. A protocol that one team implements is a program; a protocol several teams implement compatibly is a standard, and getting there is coordination work rather than design work. Kahn's later decades went into the institutions around the technology rather than the technology itself, which is the less celebrated half of why any of it still functions.
Also known as: robert kahn, robert e. kahn