Abhay Bhushan

Abhay K. Bhushan (Hindi: अभय भूषण) (born 23 November 1944, in Allahabad, India)[1] 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. and President of the IIT-Kanpur Foundation.[2][3]

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

Early life and career

Bhushan is a graduate of the first batch (1960–65) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,[4] 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.[5]

References
  1. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~auk1w07/files/iitk50profiles.pdf%5B%5D
  2. Mr. Abhay K. Bhushan Archived 20 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Foundation". Archived from the original on 4 January 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
  4. "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.
  5. Eighth Leadership Conclave Archived 26 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine IITG. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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