IP: Van Jacobson receives 2001 ACM SIGCOMM Award

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>DATA COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST VAN JACOBSON
>TO RECEIVE 2001 ACM SIGCOMM AWARD
>
>Credited With Algorithms Which Kept the Internet From Congestion Collapse
>
>
>         NEW YORK, N.Y., MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 24, 2001 -- Van 
> Jacobson, the man widely credited with saving the Internet from an 
> otherwise inevitable congestion collapse in the late 1980s, has been 
> named the 2001 recipient of the ACM SIGCOMM Award.  Jacobson is chief 
> scientist at networking startup Packet Design, LLC.
>         The award is given annually by the Association for Computing 
> Machinery's Special Interest Group in Data Communications (ACM SIGCOMM) 
> to a recipient with a long and distinguished history of contributing to 
> the field of data communications.  Jacobson began his career in data 
> communications developing control systems for the Department of Energy in 
> the 1970s.  He is best known for redesigning the TCP/IP protocol's 
> flow-control algorithms to better handle congestion, preventing the 
> Internet's collapse from traffic congestion in 1988-89.  He is also 
> widely recognized for his work on network synchronization effects, 
> scalable multimedia protocols and applications, IP operations tools 
> (e.g., traceroute and pathchar) and high-performance TCP implementations.
>         Prior to joining Packet Design as a member of the founding team, 
> Jacobson was chief scientist at Cisco Systems, and before that had been 
> group leader for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Network Research Group.
>         The SIGCOMM Award has been presented every year since 
> 1989.  Prior recipients include Paul Baran, Vinton G. Cerf, David Farber 
> and Leonard Kleinrock.  ACM SIGCOMM is the world's largest professional 
> society devoted to data communications.



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