Abhay Bhushan

Abhay Bhushan
Born (1944-11-23) 23 November 1944 (age 77)
Allahabad, United Provinces, India
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Sloan School of Management
Known forFile Transfer Protocol

Abhay K. Bhushan (Hindi: अभय भूषण) (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

Bhushan is a graduate of the first batch (1960–65) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,[5] 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 RFC114 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.[6]

References

  1. ^ http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~auk1w07/files/iitk50profiles.pdf[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Leadership Team - Indians for Collection Action (ICA)". ICA. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  3. ^ Mr. Abhay K. Bhushan Archived 20 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Foundation". Archived from the original on 4 January 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ 8번째 리더십 콘클라베 2019년 4월 26일 웨이백 머신 IITG에 보관. 2018년 11월 20일 회수.