Internet Hall of Fame Pioneers
As someone who appreciates the impact of the Internet on society, I am always interested in those who helped make it happen. The Internet Hall of Fame inducts in some of those who have made major contributions.
They have three categories – pioneers, global connectors and innovators. For those interested here are the pioneers:
- Paul Baran – helped invent packet switching
- Vint Cerf – co-designer of TCP/IP protocols that the Internet runs on
- Danny Cohen – first application of packet switching to real-time applications
- Steve Crocker – developed the protocols for the ARPANET
- Donald Davies – one of the inventors of packet switching computer networking
- Elizabeth Feinler – pioneered and managed the ARPANET, and the Defense Data Network (DDN), network information centers
- Charles Herzfeld – director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the 1960s, oversaw the decision for the creation of ARPANET
- Robert Kahn – co-designer of TCP/IP protocols that the Internet runs on
- Peter Kirstein – started the first European ARPANET node with transatlantic IP connectivity
- Leonard Kleinrock – pioneered the mathematical theory of packet networks
- John Klensin – involved in the early procedural and definitional work for DNS administration and top-level domain definitions
- Jon Postel – contributed to TCP/IP, SMTP and DNS development. RFC Editor. Created and was IANA. Internet Society founder.
- Louis Pouzin – designed the CYCLADES computer network and its datagram packet switching network, from which TCP/IP was derived
- Lawrence Roberts – designed and managed the first packet network, the ARPANET
Their work collectively has changed the world dramatically.