Robert E. Kahn

Corporation for National Research Initiatives promotes research and development for the National Information Infrastructure. Its projects include the handle system for assigning, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers for digital objects and other internet resources, and nanotechnology exchange, research in spoken dialogue systems, and other activities supporting research in digital libraries and networked information technologies. The company was founded by Robert E. Kahn in 1986 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

Part of Verizon Communications, Inc., Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc. designs and manufactures high performance computers. The company is based in Cambridge, MA.

Internet Society engages Internet issues including policy, governance, technology and development. It collaborates with a broad range of groups to promote the technologies that keep the Internet safe and secure, and advocate for policies that enable universal access. The firm also Operates as organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The company was founded by Vinton G. Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1992 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.