Abhay Bhushan
Abhay Bhushan Pandey | |
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Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Sloan School of Management |
Known for | File Transfer Protocol |
Abhay Bhushan Pandey (Hindi: अभय भूषण पांडे; born 23 November 1944)[1] is an Indian computer scientist. Bhushan has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol (which he started working on while he was a student at IIT-Kanpur) and the early versions of email protocols. He is currently chairman of Asquare Inc., Secretary of Indians for Collective Action[2] and the former President of the IIT-Kanpur Foundation.[3][4]
Early life and career[]
Abhay Bhushan Pandey was born in a Hindu Brahmin family in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.[5][6] Bhushan is a graduate of the first batch (1960–65) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,[7] receiving a B.Tech. in electrical engineering. Subsequently, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Masters in electrical engineering together with a degree in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. At MIT, he drafted the now famous RFC 114 and worked on developing FTP and E-mail protocols for the ARPANet and subsequent Internet. In 1978 he was a Director at the Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology in Allahabad and was also a senior manager in Engineering and Development of Xerox where he was a founder and manager of the Xerox Environmental Leadership. He also was a co-founder of both the YieldUP International which in 1995 went public on NASDAQ and Portola Communications, which was bought by Netscape in 1997.[8]
References[]
- ^ http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~auk1w07/files/iitk50profiles.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Leadership Team - Indians for Collection Action (ICA)". ICA. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ Mr. Abhay K. Bhushan Archived 20 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Foundation". Archived from the original on 4 January 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
- ^ http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~auk1w07/files/iitk50profiles.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Computer_History_Notes_Herong_s_Tutorial/UA4QEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Abhay+bhushan&pg=PA123&printsec=frontcover
- ^ "Abhay K. Bhushan- Distinguished Alumni From Kanpur IIT". IIT Global Current Affairs Archives. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ^ Eighth Leadership Conclave Archived 26 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine IITG. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- Indian computer scientists
- MIT School of Engineering alumni
- Living people
- IIT Kanpur alumni
- MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
- 1944 births