Van Jacobson
Renowned Industry Pioneer Leads PARC's Development of Content-Centric Networking
Renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling, Van Jacobson is one of the primary contributors to the technological foundations of today’s Internet. Jacobson joined PARC to lead its content-centric networking research program.
Among his many accomplishments, Jacobson's strategy for transmission control protocols (TCP) helped solve the problem of congestion — and is used in over 90% of Internet hosts today. Widely credited with enabling the Internet to expand in size and support increasing speed demands, Jacobson helped the Internet survive a major traffic surge (1988-89) without collapsing.
Jacobson has co-written many network diagnostics tools (traceroute, pathchar, and tcpdump) that are widely used by the Internet research and development community. Besides authoring dozens of seminal, Internet-defining documents, Jacobson also helped lead the development of the Internet Multicast Backbone (MBone) and the popular Internet audio and video conferencing tools (vic, vat, wb) that laid the groundwork for current Internet multimedia applications.
Prior to joining PARC as Research Fellow, Jacobson led networking efforts as Chief Scientist at Cisco Systems and later Packet Networks. He also led the groundbreaking network research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its collaboration with the Computer Science Research Group at the University of California.
Jacobson's industry honors include the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Award (2001) for outstanding lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks — especially his contributions to protocol architecture and congestion control. In 2002, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) honored Jacobson with the Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for contributing "to the understanding of network congestion," and for developing congestion control mechanisms that enabled the "successful scaling of the Internet" — laying the groundwork for the Web of today.
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