Vint Cerf

Who is Vint 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,...