Vint cerf and bob kahn
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Biography of Dr. Vinton G. Cerf
(Term expires December 20, 2024)
Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he contributes to global policy development and continued standardization and spread of the Internet. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.
Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, Cerf was responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. Previously, Cerf served as MCI’s senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.
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 Te
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Vint Cerf
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (born 1943)
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| Born | Vinton Gray Cerf (1943-06-23) June 23, 1943 (age 81) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BS) University of California, Los Angeles (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | TCP/IP Internet Society |
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| Fields | Telecommunications |
| Institutions | IBM,[2]International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad,[2][3]UCLA,[2]Stanford University,[2]DARPA,[2]MCI,[2][4]CNRI,[2]Google[5] |
| Thesis | Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gerald Estrin[6] |
| Website | research.google/people/author32412/ |
Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn.[2][7][8 Vinton Cerf is an American computer scientist and considered one of “the fathers of the internet.” Within ten years of graduating from high school, Vinton Cerf had begun co-designing and co-developing the protocols and structure of what became the internet. Cerf was born on June 23, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut to Vincent Thurston Cerf and Muriel Cerf. The family moved to Los Angeles, California and Cerf graduated from Van Nuys High School, alongside future scientists Jon Postel and Steve Crocker. Cerf subsequently entered Stanford University, and graduated in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. During this time, Cerf met his future wife Sigrid at a hearing aid agents’ practice, since they both have hearing deficiencies. Cerf's skills were in computer science, then considered by most to be a quirky subcategory of math or electrical engineering. However, computer science was emerging at several graduate programs, corporations, and government agencies. As it turned out, Cerf proved himself in all three realms. After two years working as a
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