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Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President &
Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
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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 the company.
Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the
co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic
architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton
recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of
Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest
civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal
of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the
software code used to transmit data across the Internet has
put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has
transformed global commerce, communication, and
entertainment."
From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice
President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of
the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI),
and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During
his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played
a key role leading the development of Internet and
Internet-related data packet and security technologies.
Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman of the board of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
and he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of
the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the
ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM,
AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History
Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.
Vint has received numerous awards and commendations in
connection with his work on the Internet, including the
Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the
National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias
award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell
Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for
the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for
Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International
Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell
Medal, among many others.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than
a dozen honorary degrees. |
