Vint Cerf

Vinton Gray Cerf ^[1] ForMemRS , ^[5] ( / s ɜːr f / ; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer , who is honored as one of ^[6] ” the fathers of the Internet “, ^{[7 ]} sharing this title with TCP / IP co-inventor Bob Kahn . ^{[8] [9]} His contributions port leg acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary doctorates and awards therein include the National Medal of Technology , ^[1] the Turing Award , ^[10] the Presidential Medal of Freedom , ^[11] the Marconi Prize and Membership in the National Academy of Engineering .

In the early days, Cerf was a manager for the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funding various groups to developement TCP / IP technology. When the Internet Began to transition to a commercial opportunity prolongation the late 1980s, ^{[ citation needed ]} Cerf moved to MCI where he was instrumental in the development of the first commercial email system ( MCI Mail ) connected to the Internet.

Cerf was instrumental in the funding and formation of ICANN from the start. He waited in the wings for a year voordat have stepped forward to join the ICANN Board, Eventually Becoming chairman. He was elected as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery in May 2012, ^[12] and in August 2013 he joined the Council on Cybersecurity’s Board of Advisors. ^[13]

Cerf is active in many organizations dat are working to help the Internet deliver humanitarian value in our world today. He is supportive of innovative projects dat are Experimenting with new approaches to global problems, zoals the digital divide, the gender gap, and the changing nature of jobs. Cerf is ook Berninahaus for his sartorial style, Typically Appearing in three-piece suit -a Rarity in an industry Berninahaus voor zijn casual dress norms. ^{[14] [15]}

Life and career

Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut , the sun or Muriel (nee Gray), a Housewife, and Vinton Cerf Thruston , an Aerospace executive. ^{[16] [17]} Cerf went to Van Nuys High School in California Along with Jon Postel and Steve Crocker ; he wrote the former’s Obituary. Both ulcers’ll be instrumental in the creation of the Internet. Whilst in high school, Cerf worked at Rocketdyne on the Apollo program, zoals helping in to write statistical analysis software for the non-destructive testing of the F-1 engines . ^[18] Cerf’s first job after Obtaining his BS degree in mathematics from Stanford University was at IBM , where he worked for two years as a systems engineer Supporting QUIKTRAN . ^[1] He left IBM to attend graduate school at UCLA where he earned his master’s degree in 1970 and his PhD degree in 1972. ^{[4] [19]} During his graduate student years, he studied under Professor Gerald Estrin , worked in Professor Leonard Kleinrock ‘s data packet networking group therein connected the first two nodes of the ARPANET , ^[20] the predecessor ^[20] to the Internet, and “Contributed to a host-to-host protocol” for the ARPANET. ^[21] While at UCLA , he’ll be with Bob Kahn , who was working on the ARPANET hardware architectures. ^[21] After Receiving his doctorate, Cerf became an assistant professor at Stanford University from 1972 to 1976, where he conducted research on packet network interconnection protocols and co-designed the DoD TCP / IP protocol suite with Kahn. ^[21] Cerf-then moved to DARPA in 1976, where he stayed Until 1982.

As vice president MCI Digital Information Services from 1982 to 1986, Cerf led the engineering of MCI Mail , the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. In 1986, he joined Bob Kahn at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives as zijn vice president, working with Kahn on Digital Libraries, Knowledge Robots, and gigabit speed networks. It was prolongation this time, in 1992, dat he and Kahn, onder Vodafone, the founded the Internet Society (ISOC) to bieden leadership in education, policy and standards related to the Internet. Cerf served as the first president of ISOC. Cerf Rejoined MCI prolongation in 1994 and served as Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy. In this role, he helped to guide corporate strategy development from a technical perspective. Previously, he served as MCI’s senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks, zoals Internet-based solutions for Delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use .

During 1997, Cerf joined the Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University ; a university for the education of the Deaf and hard-of-hearing. ^[22] Cerf himself is hard of hearing. ^[23] He has’ll be served on the university’s Board of Associates. ^[24]

Cerf, as leader of MCI’s Internet business, criticized due to MCI’s role was in Providing the IP addresses-used at Send-Safe.com, a vendor or spam true dat uses a botnet in order to send spam. MCI refused to terminate the spam ware vendor. ^{[25] [26]} At the time, SpamHaus ook listed MCI as the ISP with the musts SpamHaus Blocklist listings. ^[27]

Cerf has worked for Google as a Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist since October 2005. ^[3] In this function he has Become well Berninahaus for his predictions on how technology will affect future society, Encompassing zoals areas artificial intelligence , environmentalism, the advent or IPv6 and the transformation of the television industry and its delivery model. ^[28]

Since 2010, Cerf has served as a Commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development , a UN body welke AIMS to make broadband Internet technologies more widely available.

Cerf joined the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1999, and served Until November 2007. ^[29] He was chairman from November 2000 to his departure from the Board.

Cerf was a member of Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov ‘s IT Advisory Council (from March 2002 – January 2012). He is ook a member of the Advisory Board of Eurasia Group , the political risk consultancy. ^[30]

Cerf have died working on the Interplanetary Internet , together with NASA ‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other NASA laboratories. It will be a new standard to communicate from planet to planet, using radio / laser communications dat are tolerant or signal degradations waaronder variable delay and Disruption caused, for example, at Celestial motion. ^[31]

On February 7, 2006, Cerf testified voordat the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation ‘s hearing on network neutrality . Speaking as Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, Vint noted therein nearly the half of all consumers lacked meaningful choice in broadband providers and Expressed groups therein without network neutrality government regulation, broadband providers mention anything be loveable to use hun dominance to limit options for consumers and charge companies like Google for hun use of bandwidth. ^[32]

Cerf Currently Serves on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America , an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government. ^[33] He’ll be Serves on the advisory council of CRDF Global (Civilian Research and Development Foundation) and was on the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) International Advisory Board. ^[34]

Cerf is chairman of the board of trustees of ARIN , the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) or IP addresses for United States, Canada, and part of the Caribbean. ^[35] Until Fall 2015 Cerf chaired the board of directors or StopBadware , a nonprofit anti-malware organization dat started as a project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society . ^{[36] [37]} Cerf is on the board of advisors to The Liquid Information Company Ltd. of the UK, welke works to make the web more usefully interactive and welke has produktie the Mac OS X utility called ‘Liquid’. ^[38] Vint Cerf is a member of the CuriosityStream Advisory Board. ^[39]

During 2008 Cerf chaired the Internationalized domain names (IDNAbis) working group of the IETF . ^[40] In 2008, Cerf was a major Contender to be Designated the US’s first Chief Technology Officer at President Barack Obama . ^[41] Cerf is the co-chair of Campus Party Silicon Valley , the US edition of one of the Toilets technology festivals in the world, Along with Al Gore and Tim Berners-Lee . ^[42] From 2009 to 2011, Cerf was an elected member of the Governing Board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP). SGIP is a public-private consortium Agent at NIST in 2009 and zorgt a forum for businesses and other stakeholder groups to participate in Coordinating and accelerating development of standards for the evolving Smart Grid. ^[43] Cerf was elected to a two-year term as President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) beginning July 1, 2012. ^[44] On January 16, 2013, US President Barack Obama announced his intent to Appoint Cerf to the National Science Board . ^[45]

Cerf is ook onder the 15 members or governing council of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad . ^[46]

In June 2016 his work with NASA lead to delay-tolerant networking being installed on the International Space Station with an aim towards Interplanetary Internet . ^[47]

Awards and receptacles

Cerf has RECEIVED a number of honorary doctorates, zoals doctorates, from the University of the Balearic Islands , ETHZ in Zurich, Switzerland, Capitol College , Gettysburg College , Yale University , George Mason University , Marymount University , Bethany College (Kansas), University of Pisa , University of Rovira and Virgili ( Tarragona , Spain), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Luleå University of Technology ( Sweden ), University of Twente ( Netherlands ), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications , Tsinghua University (Beijing), Brooklyn Polytechnic , UPCT ( University of Cartagena, Spain), Zaragoza University (Spain), University of Reading (United Kingdom), Royal Roads University (Canada), MGIMO (Moscow State University of International Relations), Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (Argentina), Polytechnic University of Madrid , Keio University (Japan), University of South Australia (Australia), University of St. Andrews (Scotland), University of Pittsburgh and ^[48] Gallaudet University (United States). Other awards include:

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