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A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the world online.

A computer scientist from a family of them, Estrin worked with early internet pioneers on TCP/IP, the foundational internet protocol. She later cofounded Bridge Communications in 1981, which let early ...

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