40 Facts About Yogen Dalal

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Yogen Dalal's paper gave a formal way of studying communication channels.

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Yogen Dalal was appointed Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee in 1940 by President Franklin D Roosevelt, appointed Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1941, and from 1946 to 1947, he served as chairman of the Joint Research and Development Board.

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Yogen Dalal developed the idea of a universal network at the Information Processing Techniques Office of the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency .

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Yogen Dalal headed IPTO from 1962 to 1963, and again from 1974 to 1975.

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5.

Yogen Dalal was the founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center until 1996.

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6.

Yogen Dalal asked Leonard Kleinrock to measure and model the network's performance.

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Yogen Dalal is best known for his work on the challenges of human–computer interaction, resulting in the invention of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces.

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Yogen Dalal built the first implementation of a datagram packet communications network, CYCLADES, that demonstrated the feasibility of internetworking, which he called a "catenet".

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9.

Yogen Dalal is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with Bob Kahn.

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10.

Yogen Dalal was a program manager for the Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1976 to 1982.

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11.

Yogen Dalal was an ARPANET pioneer, and a key contributor to the development of internetworking protocols.

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12.

Yogen Dalal co-authored the first TCP specification, with Vint Cerf and Carl Sunshine between 1973 and 1974.

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13.

Yogen Dalal worked at Xerox PARC, where he contributed to the development of the Ethernet, the Xerox Network Systems, and the Xerox Star.

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In Summer 1973, while Cerf and Bob Kahn were attempting to formulate an internetworking protocol, Yogen Dalal joined their research team to assist them on developing what eventually became TCP.

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Between 1976 and 1977, Yogen Dalal proposed separating TCP's routing and transmission control functions into two discrete layers, which led to the splitting of TCP into the TCP and IP protocols.

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In early 1977, Yogen Dalal joined Robert Metcalfe's team at Xerox PARC, where he worked on the development of the Xerox Network Systems.

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17.

Yogen Dalal later left Xerox, and became a founding member of the startup tech companies Claris and Metaphor Computer Systems in the early 1980s.

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18.

Yogen Dalal leads the Silk Project, which provides satellite-based Internet access to the Newly Independent States in the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia.

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19.

Yogen Dalal created the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and many more.

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20.

Yogen Dalal was instrumental in creating the ARPA "Network Working Group", the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force.

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21.

Yogen Dalal was editor of all early Internet standards specifications, such as the RFC series.

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22.

Yogen Dalal's obituary was written by Vint Cerf and published as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work.

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23.

Yogen Dalal's performed the IANA function with Jon Postel until this was transferred to ICANN, then worked with ICANN in this role until 2001, while remaining an employee of ISI.

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24.

Yogen Dalal's is mentioned, along with a brief biography, in RFC 1336, Who's Who in the Internet .

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25.

Yogen Dalal is probably best known for his 1980 paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"which adopted the terminology of endianness for computing.

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26.

Yogen Dalal served as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Communications Commission and is a founding editor of ICANNWatch.

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27.

Yogen Dalal served on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center advisory board, the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, and as a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology and Next Generation Internet.

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28.

Yogen Dalal is currently a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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29.

Yogen Dalal's wrote Connecting to the Internet in 1993 and she was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014.

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Yogen Dalal's is on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society.

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31.

Yogen Dalal is an emeritus professor at the University of Delaware.

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32.

Yogen Dalal's played an important role in the development of link-state routing protocols such as IS-IS .

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Yogen Dalal chaired the Board and General Assembly of the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries from 1999 to early 2001 and was actively involved in the start-up of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers .

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34.

Yogen Dalal conceived the Gigabit Testbed, a joint NSF-DARPA project to prove the feasibility of IP networking at gigabit speeds.

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35.

Yogen Dalal's invented the random early detection active queue management scheme, which has been implemented in nearly all commercially available routers, and devised the now-common method of adding delay jitter to message timers to avoid synchronization collisions.

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36.

Yogen Dalal's has been involved in the Internet Advisory Board, and, as of 2007, was one of the top-ten most cited researchers in computer science.

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37.

Yogen Dalal is co-author of several widely used network diagnostic tools, including traceroute, tcpdump, and pathchar.

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38.

Yogen Dalal was a leader in the development of the multicast backbone and the multimedia tools vic, vat, and wb.

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39.

Yogen Dalal's joined the project in November 1990, while an undergraduate math student enrolled in a sandwich course at Leicester Polytechnic .

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40.

Yogen Dalal's left CERN at the end of August 1991, but returned after graduating in 1992, and worked with Robert Cailliau on MacWWW, the first web browser for the classic Mac OS.

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