Abhay Bhushan (; born 23 November 1944) is an Indian computer scientist. Bhushan has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet

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architecture, and is the author of the

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(which he started working on while he was a student at MIT) and the early versions of

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standards. He is currently chairman of Asquare Inc., Secretary of Indians for Collective Action and the former President of the IIT-Kanpur Foundation. In 2023, he was inducted into the

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Early life and career

Abhay Bhushan was born in

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. Bhushan is a graduate of the first batch (1960–65) from the

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, receiving a B.Tech. in

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. Subsequently, he studied at the

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, where he received a Masters in electrical engineering together with a degree in Management from the

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. At MIT, he drafted the now famous and worked on developing FTP and E-mail protocols for the ARPANet and subsequent Internet. In 1978 he was a

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at the Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology in

and was also a senior manager in Engineering and Development of

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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

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and Portola Communications, which was bought by

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in 1997.Eighth Leadership Conclave
IITG. Retrieved 20 November 2018.

References

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