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Van Jacobson is an American computer scientist, renowned for his work on TCP/IP network performance and scaling. He is one of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack—the technological foundation of today’s Internet.
Official Biography: Van Jacobson. One of the primary contributors to the technological foundations of today’s Internet, Van Jacobson joined PARC in 2006 as a Research Fellow to lead its content-centric networking research program.
Van Jacobson’s algorithms for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) helped solve the problem of congestion and are used in over 90% of Internet hosts today. He is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling.
29 de may. de 2012 · Computer's multimedia editor Charles Severance captures a video interview with Van Jacobson on the creation of the National Science Foundation network in the 1980s.
25 de may. de 2012 · Twenty five years later, the digerati credits Jacobson with averting an ARPAnet meltdown that would have stunted the growth of the modern internet -- or even destroyed it all together. But ...
Van Jacobson TCP/IP Header Compression is a data compression protocol described in RFC 1144, specifically designed by Van Jacobson to improve TCP/IP performance over slow serial links.
1 de mar. de 2016 · Van Jacobson is one of the primary contributors to the technological foundations of today’s Internet. While employed at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif., he collaborated with the Computer Science Research Group at the University of California to help solve the problem of computer congestion.
