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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.
May 25, 2012 · All Van Jacobson wanted to do was upload a few documents to the internet. Unfortunately, it was 1985. The internet wasn't yet called the internet.
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.
May 29, 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.
Mar 1, 2016 · Chief scientist at Packet Design in Mountain View, Calif., Mr. Jacobson has written or co-authored dozens of papers in the area of networking technology and received the 2001 ACM Sigcomm Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Congestion Avoidance and Control. Van Jacobson*. University of California Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720 van@helios.ee.lbl.gov. In October of '86, the Internet had the first of what became a series of 'congestion collapses'.
