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Van Jacobson was previously Chief Scientist at Cisco Systems where he worked on cross company architectural efforts such as QoS and Voice Services. Prior to Cisco he had a distinguished career at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory as a group leader for the Network Research Group. Beginning with his seminal paper Congestion Avoidance and Control (SIGCOMM 88), Jacobson has authored dozens of papers and RFCs on his work in the areas of performance and scaling of IP networks. Jacobson also contributed many of the defacto tools currently used in the IP development community, including traceroute, pathchar, and tcpdump. While at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory he was one of the leaders in the development effort of the multicast backbone (MBone), and his group developed the first popular Internet multimedia tools (vic, vat, wb) laying the groundwork for many of the current commercial multicast applications. In 2001, Van was awarded the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Award for his many years of creativity and commitment to data networking. In 2002, Van was awarded the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for major contributions to the understanding of network congestion, and the development of congestion control mechanisms, enabling the successful scaling of the Internet. | 