Abhay Bhushan (Template:IPA; born November 23, 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 MIT) and the early versions of email 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 the Internet Hall of Fame.[5][1]
Early life and career
Abhay Bhushan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.[1][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 Template:IETF RFC 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 2023 Inductee - Abhay Bhushan. Internet Hall of Fame. Internet Society. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ↑ Leadership Team - Indians for Collection Action (ICA). ICA. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ↑ Mr. Abhay K. Bhushan Template:Webarchive Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ↑ Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Foundation.
- ↑ Template:Cite press release
- ↑ Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. HerongYang.com(20 December 2020)
- ↑ Abhay K. Bhushan- Distinguished Alumni From Kanpur IIT. IIT Global Current Affairs Archives.
- ↑ Eighth Leadership Conclave Template:Webarchive IITG. Retrieved 20 November 2018.