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IP: Van Jacobson receives 2001 ACM SIGCOMM Award
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:46:44 -0400
DATA COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST VAN JACOBSON TO RECEIVE 2001 ACM SIGCOMM AWARD Credited With Algorithms Which Kept the Internet From Congestion Collapse NEW YORK, N.Y., MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 24, 2001 -- Van Jacobson, the man widely credited with saving the Internet from an otherwise inevitable congestion collapse in the late 1980s, has been named the 2001 recipient of the ACM SIGCOMM Award. Jacobson is chief scientist at networking startup Packet Design, LLC. The award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Data Communications (ACM SIGCOMM) to a recipient with a long and distinguished history of contributing to the field of data communications. Jacobson began his career in data communications developing control systems for the Department of Energy in the 1970s. He is best known for redesigning the TCP/IP protocol's flow-control algorithms to better handle congestion, preventing the Internet's collapse from traffic congestion in 1988-89. He is also widely recognized for his work on network synchronization effects, scalable multimedia protocols and applications, IP operations tools (e.g., traceroute and pathchar) and high-performance TCP implementations. Prior to joining Packet Design as a member of the founding team, Jacobson was chief scientist at Cisco Systems, and before that had been group leader for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Network Research Group. The SIGCOMM Award has been presented every year since 1989. Prior recipients include Paul Baran, Vinton G. Cerf, David Farber and Leonard Kleinrock. ACM SIGCOMM is the world's largest professional society devoted to data communications.
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