Abhay Bhushan (born llahabad] ), India

India

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, 23 November 1944) has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol

File Transfer Protocol

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 and the early versions of email

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 protocols. He is currently chairman of Asquare Inc. and President of the IIT-Kanpur Foundation.

Career

Bhushan is a graduate of the first batch (1960–65) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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, receiving a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering

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. Subsequently he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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, where he received a Masters in Electrical Engineering together with a degree in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan School of Management

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. At MIT, he drafted the now famous RFC 114 and worked on developing FTP and E-mail protocols for the ARPANet and subsequent Internet.