# Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/robert-kahn-the-great-interconnector/
- Published: 2024-04-26T09:45:37-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image credit: Peter Adams. Article by Tekla S. Perry. IEEE Spectrum – April 20, 2024. In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network. He didn’t think much about what they would say to one another, though. He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a stint at the nearby research-and-development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). He simply found the problem interesting. […] Click here to view original web page at spectrum.ieee.org