Vinton G. Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is commonly referred to as the "father of the Internet". During his tenure from 1976 to 1982 with the United States Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies, including co-designing the TCP/IPprotocol. As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982 to 1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. In December 1997, he was presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology by President Bill Clinton, along with his partner Robert E. Kahn, for these accomplishments.
He is the author of several RFCs, and founder of ISOC.
Vint Cerf is also working on the Interplanetary Protocol, which will be a new standard to communicate from planet to planet, which will be radio/laser communications that are hightly tolerant to signal degradation. http://www.ipnsig.org/
In October 2002 he was awarded (together with Bob Kahn, Larry Roberts and Tim Berners-Lee) Premio Principe de Asturias de Investigacion Cientifica. The most distinguished spanish awards.
He is one of the most enthusiastic and prolific people in the internet community. And helping to preserve the history of the internet contributing to projects like WiWiW (Who is Who in the Internet World)
External link
The WiWiW Project homepage (http://www.veabaro.info/stanford/wiwiw.htm)
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 and the National Academy of Engineering.
Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.
Vint Cerf was selected by the 2004 Nominating Committee to an additional term, which runs from the end of the 2004 annual meeting through the conclusion of the ICANN Annual Meeting in 2007.
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as the "father of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses.
He was also the founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), which is intended to both promote the views of ordinary users of the Internet, and also serve as an umbrella body for the technical groups developing the Internet (such as the Internet Engineering Task Force).
Shortly thereafter, in 1973, Bob Kahn (whom Cerf already knew, since Kahn had been in charge of the ARPANET project at its prime contractor, Bolt, Beranek and Newman) and Cerf started thinking about how to connect together several different packet switching networks, into what we now call an internetwork.
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