15 Facts About Steve Crocker

Stephen D Crocker was born on October 15,1944 and is an American Internet pioneer.

Steve Crocker served as chair of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers from 2011 through 2017.

Steve Crocker attended Van Nuys High School, as did Vint Cerf and Jon Postel.

Steve Crocker led other graduate students, including Jon Postel and Vint Cerf, in designing a host-host protocol known as the Network Control Program.

Steve Crocker formed the International Network Working Group in 1972, then his research interests shifted to artificial intelligence.

Steve Crocker was acknowledged by Cerf and Kahn in their seminal 1974 paper on internetworking.

Steve Crocker was active in the newly formed UCLA Computer Club.

Steve Crocker has been a program manager at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a senior researcher at USC's Information Sciences Institute, founder and director of the Computer Science Laboratory at The Aerospace Corporation and a vice president at Trusted Information Systems.

In 1994, Steve Crocker was one of the founders and chief technology officer of CyberCash, Inc In 1998, he founded and ran Executive DSL, a DSL-based ISP.

Steve Crocker is currently CEO of Shinkuro, a research and development company.

Steve Crocker has been an IETF security area director, a member of the Internet Architecture Board, chair of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee, board member and chairman of ICANN, a board member of the Internet Society and numerous other Internet-related volunteer positions.

Steve Crocker has worked in the Internet community since its inception.

In 2012, Steve Crocker was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

On November 6th, 2024 Dr Crocker received the Jonathan B Postel Award during the 121th IETF meeting in Dublin, Ireland.

Steve Crocker was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for pioneering leadership in the design of the Arpanet Host-Host Protocols and applications".