This week’s speaker was Bob Kahn, the inventor of the Internet. Mr. Kahn was the principal designer of the first computer network, ARPANET, for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1972.  He later experimented with Packet Radio Net and Packet Satellite Net.  Mr. Kahn, along with his co-partner, developed TCP/IP Protocol.  TCP/IP is the common language and set of rules that allows computers to “talk” to one another.  His idea of open architecture networking set the stage for the internet as we know it today.  After a 13 year career with DARPA, Mr. Kahn founded Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) which is a not-for-profit organization to provide leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure.  Mr. Kahn has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal Freedom awarded presented to him by President Bush in 2005.