Van Jacobson

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Van Jacobson joined PARC as a research fellow in August 2006. He previously served as chief scientist at Packet Design LLC[1]. Prior to that, he was chief scientist at Cisco Systems and group leader for the Network Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Jacobson is best known for his work in IP network performance and scaling; his work redesigning TCP/IP's flow control algorithms to better handle congestion is said to have saved the Internet from collapsing due to traffic in 1988-1989. He is also well-known for the TCP/IP Header Compression protocol described in RFC 1144, mainly meant to improve performance over low-speed links, popularly known as Van Jacobson TCP/IP Header Compression. Furthermore he has co-written a few widely used network diagnostics tools, such as traceroute, pathchar and tcpdump.

For his work, Jacobson received the 2001 ACM SIGCOMM Award, the 2003 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

In January 2006 at Linux.conf.au, Jacobson presented another idea about network performance improvement - network channels.

Jacobson discussed his ideas on Content centric networking[2] in August 2006 as part of the Google Tech Talks [3]. This is the focus of his current work at PARC.

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Van Jacobson research at PARC on Content centric networking

Van Jacobson's Google Tech Talks speech entitled "A New Way to Look at Networking"