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Vint Cerf

Co-designer of TCP/IP and Internet pioneer.

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He has received the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[1] Cerf was born on June 23, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut.[2] Born on June 23, 1943, Vinton Gray Cerf is an American who helped create the Internet and is often called one of its "fathers" along with Robert Kahn, who co-developed TCP/IP.[3]

Life and work

At UCLA, Cerf studied under Professor Gerald Estrin and worked in Leonard Kleinrock's data packet networking group.[4] Cerf worked as assistant professor at Stanford University from 1972 to 1976.[5] From 1973 to 1982, he worked at DARPA and funded groups to develop TCP/IP and related technologies.[6] For a six-month period while still a high school student, Cerf contributed to the Apollo program by working at Rocketdyne.[7]

From October 2005 until July 2026, Cerf held the positions of vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.[8] Cerf and his wife Sigrid, both of whom have hearing loss, first encountered each other during the 1960s at a practice run by a hearing aid agent.[9]

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A 2005 Spam Kings Blog report states that anti-spammers planned an ethics complaint against Cerf over MCI's refusal to terminate spamware vendor Send-Safe.com.[10] The same source notes that Spamhaus founder Steve Linford communicated directly with Cerf, who replied that MCI does not consider spamware a violation of its terms of service.[10] The InterPlaNetary Internet Project Special Interest Group was founded in 1998 by Vint Cerf and researchers within academia and NASA/JPL.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Vint Cerf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cerf's curriculum vitae as of February 2001, attached to a transcript of his testimony that month before the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Telecomm; Cerf wins Turing Award February 16, 2005; 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients from the White House website (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Vint Cerf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jerome, "Lending An Ear – Health, Real People Stories", People, September 18, 2000; "Vinton Gray Cerf Biography", BookRags.com; Cerf, "Vinton G. Cerf : An Oral History", Stanford Oral History Collections, February 4–5, 2019, p. 18-20; Cerf, "A Genetic Theory of the Silicon Valley Phenomenon", Communications of the ACM, 2017-04-01 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Vint Cerf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cerf's curriculum vitae as of February 2001, attached to a transcript of his testimony that month before the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Telecomm; (see Interview with Vinton Cerf , from a January 2006 article in Government Computer News), Cerf is willing to call himself one of the internet fathers, citing ; Cerf, "The day the Internet age began", Nature, 2009, p. 1202–1203; "ACM Turing Award, list of recipients", Awards.acm.org; "IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal", Ieee.org, July 7, 2009 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Vint Cerf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cerf, "Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation", University of California, Los Angeles, 1972; "UCLA School of Engineering Alumnus Chosen for Prestigious Turing Award", UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Spring 2005; "Internet predecessor turns 30", CNN, September 2, 1999; "Internet predecessor turns 30", CNN, September 2, 1999; "INTERNET PIONEERS CERF AND KAHN TO RECEIVE ACM TURING AWARD", ACM, February 16, 2005 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Vint Cerf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "INTERNET PIONEERS CERF AND KAHN TO RECEIVE ACM TURING AWARD", ACM, February 16, 2005 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Vint Cerf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cerf, "Oral history interview with Vinton G. Cerf", University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, 1990-04-24, p. 24; Cerf, "Oral history interview with Vinton G. Cerf", University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, 1990-04-24, p. 28; Vint, "Vint Cerf: The past, present and future of the internet", Youtube, 2017-06-27; Lukasik, "Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1973: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee On Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, On H. R. [16593] pt.1"; "Meet Mr en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Vint Cerf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wientjes, "Creative Genius in Technology: Mentor Principles from Life Stories of Geniuses and Visionaries of the Singularity", CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011, p. 93; Bobrow, "Vint Cerf Helped Create the Internet on the Back of an Envelope", The Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2022 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Vint Cerf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cerf's up at Google, from the Google Press Center; Fernholz, "The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring", TechCrunch, 1 July 2026; Morris, "The ‘Father of the Internet’ Is Retiring. This 1 Factor From Childhood Motivated Him to Connect the World", Inc. (magazine), 3 July 2026; The Daily Telegraph, August 2007 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Vint Cerf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Little Magazine - Listen - Vinton Cerf - The little deaf girl", www.littlemag.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. McWilliams, "Protest brewing against Internet pioneer", Spam Kings Blog, February 16, 2005. facts only, no text reused. oreilly.com
  11. "The InterPlaNetary Internet Project IPN Special Interest Group", Ipnsig.org. facts only, no text reused. ipnsig.org

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