Peter T. Kirstein

Professor Peter Kirstein CBE, FREng
Education	Highgate School Cambridge University Stanford University
Thesis	Curvilinear space-charge flow with applications to electron guns (1957)
Website http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Kirstein/

Peter Thomas Kirstein (born 1933) is a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet; he is "often recognized as the father of the European Internet".^[1]

Born in Germany but brought up in England, he was educated at Highgate School in North London,^[2] received a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1954, an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University (in 1955 and 1957, respectively) and a D.Sc. in engineering from the University of London in 1970.

He was a member of the staff at CERN from 1959-1963. He did research for General Electric at Zurich from 1963-1967. He was a professor at the University of London from 1970-1973. After that, he joined the faculty at the University College London, where he has been ever since (serving as head of the computer science department from 1980–1994).

Early in the development of the Internet, he co-authored (with Vint Cerf) one of the most significant early technical papers on the internetworking concept.^[3] His research group at UCL played a significant role in the very earliest experimental Internet work.^[4]

He was awarded the CBE for his work on the Internet. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has also received the SIGCOMM Award in 1999, and the Postel Award in 2003, as well as various other award for his contributions to the development of the Internet internationally.

In 2012, Kirstein was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.^[5] In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Marconi Prize.^[1]

References

1 2 "Peter Kirstein to receive Marconi Prize". Marconi Society. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
↑ Highgate School Register 7th Edn 1833-1988, Ed. Patrick Hughes & Ian F Davies 1989
↑ Cerf, V. G.; Kirstein, P. T. (1978). "Issues in packet-network interconnection". Proceedings of the IEEE. 66 (11): 1386. doi:10.1109/PROC.1978.11147.
↑ Kirstein, Peter T. "Early experiences with the ARPANET and Internet in the UK". Department of Computer Science, Systems and Networks Research Group, University College London. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
↑ 2012 Inductees, Internet Hall of Fame website. Last accessed April 24, 2012

External links

Internet Hall of Fame

Pioneers

2012	Paul Baran^† Vint Cerf Danny Cohen Steve Crocker Donald Davies^† Elizabeth J. Feinler Charles Herzfeld Robert Kahn Peter T. Kirstein Leonard Kleinrock John Klensin Jon Postel^† Louis Pouzin Lawrence Roberts
2013	David Clark David Farber Howard Frank Kanchana Kanchanasut J. C. R. Licklider^† Bob Metcalfe Jun Murai Kees Neggers Nii Quaynor Glenn Ricart Robert Taylor Stephen Wolff Werner Zorn
2014	Douglas Engelbart^† Susan Estrada Frank Heart Dennis Jennings Rolf Nordhagen^† Radia Perlman

Global connectors

2012	Randy Bush Kilnam Chon Al Gore Nancy Hafkin Geoff Huston Brewster Kahle Daniel Karrenberg Toru Takahashi Tan Tin Wee
2013	Karen Banks Gihan Dias Anriette Esterhuysen Steve Goldstein Teus Hagen Ida Holz Qiheng Hu Haruhisa Ishida^† Barry Leiner^† George Sadowsky
2014	Dai Davies Demi Getschko Masaki Hirabaru^† Erik Huizer Steven Huter Abhaya Induruwa Dorcas Muthoni Mahabir Pun Srinivasan Ramani Michael Roberts Ben Segal Douglas Van Houweling

Innovators

2012	Mitchell Baker Tim Berners-Lee Robert Cailliau Van Jacobson Lawrence Landweber Paul Mockapetris Craig Newmark Raymond Tomlinson Linus Torvalds Philip Zimmermann
2013	Marc Andreessen John Perry Barlow François Flückiger Stephen Kent Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder Henning Schulzrinne Richard Stallman Aaron Swartz^† Jimmy Wales
2014	Eric Allman Eric Bina Karlheinz Brandenburg John Cioffi Hualin Qian Paul Vixie

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