Dr.
Vinton G. Cerf
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and
Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.
He is responsible for identifying
new enabling technologies and applications
on the Internet and other platforms
for Google.
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 partner,
Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing
the Internet.
Cerf served as Senior Vice President
at MCI from 1994 to 2005 and as Vice
President of the Corporation for National
Research Initiatives from 1986 to
1994 and as Vice President of MCI
from 1982
to 1986. During his tenure from 1976-1982
with the U.S. 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.
Vint Cerf has served as chairman of
the board of the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
since November 2000 and has been a
Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory since 1998. Cerf served
as founding president of the Internet
Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and
on the
ISOC board until 2000. 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 is a recipient of numerous awards
and commendations in connection with
his work on the Internet. These include
the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark
Draper award of the National Academy
of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias
award for science and technology,
the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented
by the Alexander Graham Bell Association
for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award
from the Association for Computer
Machinery, the Silver Medal of the
International Telecommunications Union,
and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell
Medal among many others. He holds
a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA
and over a dozen additional honorary
degrees. In December, 1994, People
magazine identified Cerf as one of
that year's "25 Most Intriguing
People."
In addition to his work on behalf of
MCI and the Internet, Cerf has served
as a technical advisor to production
for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth:
Final Conflict." and made a special
guest appearance on the program in
May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television
programs NextWave with Leonard Nimoy
and on World Business Review with
Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger.
His personal interests include fine
wine, gourmet cooking and science
fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid,
were married in 1966 and have two
sons, David and Bennett. |
