Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn.
After college, Cerf worked at IBM as a systems engineer supporting QUIKTRAN for two years. Cerf and his wife Sigrid both have hearing deficiencies; they met at a [aid] agent's practice in the 1960s, which led him to becoming an advocate for accessibility. He left IBM to attend graduate school at UCLA where he earned his M.S.
degree in 1970 and his PhD in 1972.
degree in 1970 and his PhD in 1972.
In the late 1980s, Cerf moved to MCI where he helped develop the first commercial email system (MCI Mail) to be connected to the Internet. Cerf is active in a number of global humanitarian organizations.
Cerf is also known for his sartorial style, typically appearing in a three-piece suit—a rarity in an industry known for its casual dress norms. As vice president of 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.
Cerf is also known for his sartorial style, typically appearing in a three-piece suit—a rarity in an industry known for its casual dress norms. As vice president of 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 its vice president, working with Kahn on Digital Libraries, Knowledge Robots, and gigabit speed networks.
Since 1988 Cerf lobbied for the privatization of the internet.
Mills Explaining the role of GOSIP, , August 1990 Clark, Chapin, Cerf, Braden, Hobby, Towards the Future Internet Architecture, , December 1991 Vinton Cerf et al., A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, , February 1993 Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S.
Mills Explaining the role of GOSIP, , August 1990 Clark, Chapin, Cerf, Braden, Hobby, Towards the Future Internet Architecture, , December 1991 Vinton Cerf et al., A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, , February 1993 Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S.
In 1992, he and Kahn, among others, founded the Internet Society (ISOC) to provide leadership in education, policy and standards related to the Internet.
Mills Explaining the role of GOSIP, , August 1990 Clark, Chapin, Cerf, Braden, Hobby, Towards the Future Internet Architecture, , December 1991 Vinton Cerf et al., A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, , February 1993 Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S.
Cerf rejoined MCI during 1994 and served as Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy.
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, including 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.
He joined the board in 1999, and served until November 2007.
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).
Mills Explaining the role of GOSIP, , August 1990 Clark, Chapin, Cerf, Braden, Hobby, Towards the Future Internet Architecture, , December 1991 Vinton Cerf et al., A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, , February 1993 Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S.
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).
Mills Explaining the role of GOSIP, , August 1990 Clark, Chapin, Cerf, Braden, Hobby, Towards the Future Internet Architecture, , December 1991 Vinton Cerf et al., A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, , February 1993 Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S.
Patent 6,418,138 Vinton Cerf et al., System for Distributed Task Execution June 3, 2003, U.S.
Nunn who purchased the generator and plans from George Westinghouse and Tesla. Cerf and Kahn were the winners of the Turing Award for 2004, for their "pioneering work on internetworking, including ..
At the time, Spamhaus also listed MCI as the ISP with the most Spamhaus Block List listings. Cerf has worked for Google as a vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist since October 2005.
and for inspired leadership in networking." In November 2005, Vinton Cerf and Kahn were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W.
It will be a new standard to communicate from planet to planet, using radio/laser communications that are tolerant of signal degradations including variable delay and disruption caused, for example, by celestial motion. On February 7, 2006, Cerf testified before the U.S.
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 Vinton Cerf was awarded the St.
He joined the board in 1999, and served until November 2007.
Patent 6,574,628 Vinton Cerf et al., Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture (Informational Status), , April 2007 Cerf writes under the column name "CERF'S UP", and Cerf's car has a vanity plate (registration) "CERFSUP". ==See also== List of Internet pioneers List of pioneers in computer science Paul Baran and Donald Davies, independently invented packet-switched networks == References == ==Further reading== == External links == Bio at Google Vint Cerf on the ICANN wiki Dr.
Vint Cerf is a member of the CuriosityStream Advisory Board. During 2008, Cerf chaired the Internationalized domain name (IDNAbis) working group of the IETF.
In 2008 Cerf was a major contender to be designated the first U.S.
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 established by NIST in 2009 and provides a forum for businesses and other stakeholder groups to participate in coordinating and accelerating development of standards for the evolving Smart Grid.
From 2009 to 2011, Cerf was an elected member of the Governing Board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP).
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).
Cerf was elected to a two-year term as President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) beginning July 1, 2012.
On January 16, 2013, U.S.
Until Fall 2015, Cerf chaired the board of directors of StopBadware, a non-profit anti-malware organization that started as a project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
In 2015 Cerf co-founded (with Mei Lin Fung), and is currently chairman of, People-Centered Internet (PCI).
Among the concerns are the long-term storage of, and continued reliable access to, our vast stores of present-day digital data and the associated programs, operating systems, computers and peripherals required to access such. In March 2020, Cerf confirmed that he had tested positive for COVID-19.
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