The guy who originally devised the algorithm is a professor at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. He's a pretty interesting professor - escaped from

The guy who originally devised the algorithm is a professor at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. He's a pretty interesting professor - escaped from being drafted into the Polish army during World War II, wrote some of TCP at Stanford in the 70's, somehow ended up teaching networking, operating systems, and some other random subjects in an off-the-beaten-path Canadian school that's mostly known for farming. I'm a student there; it's neat to see an article about his creation pop up. :)