- Bob Braden
Robert Braden is an American
computer scientist who played a role in the development of theInternet .His research interests include
end-to-end network protocols , especially in the transport and internetwork layers.Career
He received a Bachelor of Engineering Physics from
Cornell University in 1957, and a Master of Science inPhysics fromStanford University in 1962. After graduating, he worked at Stanford andCarnegie Mellon University . He has taught programming and operating systems courses at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and also UCLA, where he moved next.He remained at UCLA for 18 years, 16 of them at the campus computing center. He spent 1981-1982 at the Computer Science Department of
University College London . While there, he wrote the first relay system connecting the Internet with the U.K. academicX.25 network.He joined the networking research group at the
Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in 1986, and is currently a Project Leader in the Computer Networks Division. He was named an ISI Fellow in August, 2000.Professional contributions
While at UCLA, he was responsible for attaching UCLA's
IBM 360 /91supercomputer to theARPAnet , beginning in 1970. He was active in the ARPAnetNetwork Working Group , contributing to the design of the FTP protocol in particular.In 1978, he became a member of the
Internet Working Group , which developedTCP/IP , and began development of a TCP/IP implementation for UCLA's IBM system. (The UCLA IBM software was distributed to otherOS/MVS sites, and was later sold commercially.)In 1981, he was invited to join the
Internet Configuration Control Board , the organization that later became theInternet Architecture Board (IAB). He later served for 13 years as a member of the IAB.He has been a member of the
Internet Engineering Task Force and theInternet Research Task Force since their inception. When IAB task forces were formed in 1986, he created and still chairs theEnd-to-End Task Force , now known as the IRTF End-to-End Research Group.Among his many contributions during this period were:
* Editing the Host Requirements RFCs (RFC 1122, RFC 1123, RFC 1127)
* Developing theResource Reservation Protocol
* DevelopedT/TCP (RFC 1644)
* Serving as co-Editor of theRequest for Comments (RFC) series.
* Serving with theInternet Assigned Numbers Authority
* Coordinating theDARPA research networkDARTnet He is a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery .External links
* [http://www.isi.edu/news/isifellows2000webpage/bradenrfcs.htm Robert Braden's Internet RFCs]
* [http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/Geek/092993_geek_ITR.html Carl Malamud interviews Bob Braden]ources
* Gary Malkin, "Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members" (RFC 1336, May 1992)
* [http://ftp.rfc-editor.org/stories/9.html The First 30 Years of the Internet]
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