CS Professor Michael Freedman named to Endowed Professorship
July 13, 2021
Excerpt from the Office of Engineering Communications
Michael Freedman has been named the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, established by a gift of Robert E. Kahn, who earned a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1964 and is widely known as a “father of the internet.”

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He was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2019. Among other honors, he is a recipient of the 2018 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a SIGCOMM Test of Time Award, and a Sloan Fellowship.