Kilnam Chon
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Born in [Japan], in 1943. He graduated from Osaka University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1965, and then a Ph.D. in systems engineering from UCLA in 1974. He worked as a computer system designer at Rockwell International and a member of technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory until 1979. After returning to South Korea at the age of 36 in 1979, he worked as a researcher at the Korea Institute of Electronics Technology which became Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute later. From 1982 to 2008, he was a professor of computer science at KAIST.
Chon produced many talents in the System Architecture Lab (SA Lab) he directed.
In May 1982, he helped develop IPv4 network (the internet) between Seoul National University and the Korea Institute of Electronics Technology. As a result, South Korea became the second country in the world to be largely connected to the Internet, after the United States, and he is called "the father of Korean Internet".
He retired from KAIST in 2008 and became a professor emeritus there. Afterwards, he became a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in 2008. He was a professor at Keio University's Shonan Fujisawa campus in their policy and media research department.
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by Gilbert, Donald G., Ugawa, Yoshihiro, Buchhorn, Markus, Wee, Tan Tin, Mizushima, Akira, Kim, Hyun Chul, Chon, Kilnam, Weon, Seyeon, Ma, Juncai, Ichiyanagi, Yoshihiro, Liou, Der Ming, Keretho, Somnuk, Napis, Suhaimi
Published 2004
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