Vinton Cerf
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Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. The Turing award is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science." In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the Annenberg Center for Communications at USC and the National Academy of Engineering.
References
Thibodeau, Patrick (6/11/09). The Internet is incomplete, says its co-designer, Vinton Cerf. Computerworld. Retrieved 6/19/09: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134246.
Quoting from the article:
- The co-designer of the Internet's basic architecture, Vinton Cerf, said the Internet "still lacks many of the features that it needs," particularly in security, during a blunt talk to a tech industry crowd here.
- Cerf, who is a vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google Inc., co-designed with Robert Kahn the TCP/IP protocols that underpin the Internet. That was in 1973. And despite its having become operational in 1983, and commercially available in 1989, the Internet remains incomplete, he said.
- Cerf is influential because of his accomplishments, but he may be even more so today because of his affiliation with Google. President Obama's administration has appointed a number of Google employees, including CEO Eric Schmidt, to important positions.
King, Julia (7/30/07). The Grill: Google's Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf on the Hot Seat. Computerworld. Retrieved 6/19/09: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=297508.
This is an interview. Here are two examples from it:
- As one of the founding fathers of the Internet, what about your creation makes you most proud?
- It's the commercialization of the network that has given it its greatest character. Otherwise, it would be academic and military.
- The commercial incarnation didn't really happen until 1989, which makes the Internet 18 years old. It's had an awkward [adolescence]. It still isn't quite clear how it's going to fit into the world. It's boundaryless in many respects, so both good things and bad things manifest. I'm very impressed by the quantity and quality of content on the Net, [but] there's some pretty bad content as well.
- How do you use the Internet?
- My personal use of the Internet is heavily oriented toward finding information, and I'm just astonished by the information available.
- I was on vacation driving around in Utah and Arizona in remote places. We were planning to prepare some paella and needed saffron. We were out in the middle of nowhere, but I was picking up a good, strong signal on my BlackBerry. I went online and got a list of stores. We called using the mobile [phone]. Five minutes after going online and finding a store and phoning, I bought $13 worth of saffron. I thought, "By God! I can't believe what we just did!"
