Peter T. Kirstein
Peter Kirstein | |
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Born | Peter Thomas Kirschstein 20 June 1933 Berlin, Germany |
Died | 8 January 2020 London, England | (aged 86)
Education | Highgate School |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) Stanford University (MS, PhD) |
Awards |
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Scientific career | |
Institutions | CERN General Electric University College London |
Thesis | Curvilinear space-charge flow with applications to electron guns (1957) |
Doctoral advisor | Gordon S. Kino Marvin Chodorow[1] |
Doctoral students | Jon Crowcroft[2][1] |
Website | www |
Peter Thomas Kirstein .
Kirstein is often recognized as the "father of the European Internet".[3][4]
Education and early life
Kirstein was born on 20 June 1933 in Berlin, Germany, the son of Eleanor (Jacobsohn) and Walter Kirschstein.[5] His parents were dentists, and his father was awarded the Iron Cross during WWI. His family was Jewish and his mother had British citizenship from being born in London, so, fearing for their safety in Nazi governed-Germany the family immigrated to the UK in 1937.[5]
He was educated at Highgate School in North London,[6] received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Cambridge in 1954, an MSc and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University (in 1955 and 1957, respectively)[1] and a Doctor of Science (DSc) in engineering from the University of London in 1970.[citation needed]
Career and research
He was a member of the staff at
Internet development
Kirstein's research group at
Research led by
His research group at UCL played a significant role in the very earliest experimental work on what became the
In early 1983, Kirstein chaired the International Collaboration Board, which involved six NATO countries, served on the Networking Panel of the NATO Science Committee (serving as chair in 2001), and served on Advisory Committees for the Australian Research Council, the Canadian Department of Communications, the German GMD, and the Indian Education and Research Network (ERNET) Project.[22] He led the Silk Project, which provides satellite-based Internet access to the Newly Independent States in the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia.[22]
Awards and honours
Kirstein was appointed
In 2012 Kirstein was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.[24] In 2015 he was awarded the prestigious Marconi Prize.[3]
Personal life
Peter Kirstein died from a brain tumour on the morning of 8 January 2020 while in his home. Shortly after his death, Professor Steve Hailes, Head of Department for UCL Computer Science, wrote about him:
"Peter was very widely recognised as a pioneer of the Internet and has many honours to his name [...] Much of this was undoubtedly down to an incredibly logical mind, coupled with a level of interest, vision and determination that saw him retire only late last year at the age of 86. [...] Peter was also deeply empathetic and sensitive: he was both gentleman and a gentle man, he was a source of encouragement and sage advice, he was persuasive, open-minded, fair and never afraid to learn something new or to admit that he didn’t know."[25][5]
See also
- Cambridge Ring (computer network)
- Donald Davies, proposed, in 1965, a commercial national data network in the UK based on packet switching
- Internet in the United Kingdom § History
- Internet pioneers
- Louis Pouzin, developed the CYCLADES network in France, concepts from which were incorporated into the design of the Internet Protocol Suite
- Royal Signals and Radar Establishment
- Sylvia Wilbur, a computer scientist who worked for Kirstein in his early ARPANET research
- University of London Computer Centre
References
- ^ a b c d Peter T. Kirstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ EThOS uk.bl.ethos.812029.
- ^ a b c "Peter Kirstein to receive Marconi Prize". Marconi Society. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ^ UCL (22 August 2019). "Father of the European internet". Made at UCL. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ a b c Hafner, Katie (8 January 2020). "Peter Kirstein, Father of the European Internet, Is Dead at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ Highgate School Register 7th Edn 1833–1988, Ed. Patrick Hughes & Ian F Davies 1989
- ^ "Official Biography: Peter Kirstein". Internet Hall of Fame. The Internet Society. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- ^ "Man who helped the Queen send her first email dies". BBC News. 10 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ Cade Metz (25 December 2012). "How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet". Wired. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ISBN 978-1849805049.
- ^ "30 years of the international internet". 19 November 2003. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ^ "UCL marks 30 years of e-networking". Times Higher Education (THE). 21 November 2003. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
- S2CID 1558618. Archived from the original(PDF) on 7 February 2020.
- ISSN 1558-0857.
The authors wish to thank a number of colleagues for helpful comments during early discussions of international network protocols, especially R. Metcalfe, R. Scantlebury, D. Walden, and H. Zimmerman; D. Davies and L. Pouzin who constructively commented on the fragmentation and accounting issues; and S. Crocker who commented on the creation and destruction of associations.
- ^ by Vinton Cerf, as told to Bernard Aboba (1993). "How the Internet Came to Be". Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
We began doing concurrent implementations at Stanford, BBN, and University College London. So effort at developing the Internet protocols was international from the beginning. ... Mar '82 - Norway leaves the ARPANET and become an Internet connection via TCP/IP over SATNET. Nov '82 - UCL leaves the ARPANET and becomes an Internet connection.
- ^ a b "Brief History of the Internet" (PDF). Internet Society. 1997. pp. 8, 13.
- ^ Jon, Postel (18 August 1977). "1.4.1 INTERNET Meeting Notes".
- S2CID 27658511.
- ^ Moschovitis 1999, p. 104
- ISBN 978-1849805049. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ISBN 978-1466938724.
- ^ a b "Peter T. Kirstein recognized with the Internet Society's Postel Award". Internet Society. 16 July 2003. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ "Dr. Peter T. Kirstein". NAE Website. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- ^ 2012 Inductees Archived 13 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Internet Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 24 April 2012
- ^ Fisher, Lawrence M. "In Memoriam Peter T. Kirstein: 1933-2020". cacm.acm.org. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
External links
- The birth of the Internet in the UK Google video featuring Peter Kirstein, Vint Cerf, Roger Scantlebury, Peter Wilkinson, 2013
- Home page
- Kirstein recognized with Postel Award
- Awarded BCS's distinguished fellowship