Dr Vinton Cerf presented Internet, Infinity and Beyond http://internetinfinityandbeyond.blogspot.com/ in Brisbane on the 8th of March 2008 Presented by Alessandro Sorbello http://www.alessandrosorbello.com
Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf; born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist who is the "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'."His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Cerf has worked for Google as its Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist since September 2005.
Cerf's first job after obtaining his B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University was at IBM, where he worked for less than two years as a systems engineer supporting QUIKTRAN. He left IBM to attend graduate school at UCLA where he earned his master's degree in 1970 and his PhD in 1972. During his graduate student years, he studied under Professor Gerald Estrin, worked in Professor Leonard Kleinrock's data packet networking group that connected the first two nodes of the predecessor to the Internet (the ARPANet), and "contributed to a host-to-host protocol" for the ARPANet. While at UCLA, he also met Robert E. Kahn, who was working on the ARPANet hardware architecture. After receiving his doctorate, Cerf became an assistant professor at Stanford University from 1972-1976, where he "conducted research on packet network interconnection protocols and co-designed the DoD TCP/IP protocol suite with Kahn.
Awards and honors
Cerf has received a number of honorary degrees, including doctorates, from the University of the Balearic Islands, ETH in Switzerland, Capitol College, Gettysburg College, George Mason University, University of Pisa, University of Rovira and Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Lulea (Sweden), University of Twente (Netherlands), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Brooklyn Polytechnic, UPCT (University of Cartagena, Spain) and Royal Roads University (Canada)
Further awards include:
Cerf and Bob E. Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush Prince of Asturias award for science and technology Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award SIGCOMM Award for "contributions to the Internet [spanning] more than 25 years, from development of the fundamental TCP/IP protocols".
In December 1997 he, along with his partner Robert E. Kahn, was presented with the National Medal of Technology by President Bill Clinton, "for creating and sustaining development of Internet Protocols and continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of internetworking."He received the Living Legend Medal from the Library of Congress in April 2000 Dr. Cerf was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) in 2000 Cerf and Kahn were the winners of the Turing Award for 2004, for their "pioneering work on internetworking, including .. the Internet's basic communications protocols .. and for inspired leadership in networking."
In November 2005, Vinton Cerf and Kahn were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush for their contributions to the creation of the Internet. He and Robert Kahn were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2006 He and Robert Kahn were awarded the Japan Prize in January 2008. Dr Cerf was inducted into the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and given the Freedom of the City of London in April 2008.
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