Abhay Bhushan | |
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| Born | (1944-11-23)23 November 1944 (age 81)[1] |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Sloan School of Management |
| Known for | File Transfer Protocol |
Abhay Bhushan (Hindi pronunciation:[əbʰəjbʰuːʂəɳː]; born November 23, 1944)[1] is an Indian computer scientist. Bhushan has been a major contributor to the development of the InternetTCP/IP architecture, and is the author of theFile Transfer Protocol (which he started working on while he was a student at MIT) and the early versions ofemail standards. 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] In 2023, he was inducted into theInternet Hall of Fame.[5][1]
Abhay Bhushan was born inAllahabad,Uttar Pradesh.[1][6] Bhushan is a graduate of the first batch (1960–65) from theIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur,[7] receiving a B.Tech. inelectrical engineering. Subsequently, he studied at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Masters in electrical engineering together with a degree in Management from theMIT Sloan School of Management. At MIT, he drafted the now famousRFC 114 and worked on developing FTP and E-mail protocols for the ARPANet and subsequent Internet. In 1978 he was aDirector at the Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology inAllahabad and was also a senior manager in Engineering and Development ofXerox 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 onNASDAQ and Portola Communications, which was bought byNetscape in 1997.[8]
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