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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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
