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. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award,Cerf wins Turing Award
February 16, 2005 the Presidential Medal of Freedom,2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
from the White House website the Marconi Prize, and membership in the

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Life and career

Vinton Gray Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut on June 23, 1943, the son of Muriel (née Gray) and Vinton Thurston Cerf. Cerf attended Van Nuys High School with Jon Postel and

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. While in high school, Cerf worked at Rocketdyne on the Apollo program and helped write statistical analysis software for the non-destructive tests of the F-1 engines. Cerf received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from

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. After college, Cerf worked at IBM as a

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supporting QUIKTRAN for two years. Cerf and his wife Sigrid both have hearing deficiencies; they met at a hearing aid agent's practice in the 1960s, which led him to becoming an advocate for accessibility. They would later join a Methodist church. He left IBM to attend graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned his M.S. degree in 1970 and his PhD in 1972. Cerf studied under Professor Gerald Estrin and worked in Professor Leonard Kleinrock's data packet networking group that connected the first two nodes of the ARPANET, the first node on the Internet, and "contributed to a host-to-host protocol" for the ARPANET. While at UCLA, Cerf met Bob Kahn, who was working on the ARPANET system architecture. Cerf wrote the first

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protocol with Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine, called ''Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program'' (), published in December 1974. Cerf worked as

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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. Vinton Cerf-20070512

Cerf worked at the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1973 to 1982 and funded various groups to develop TCP/IP, packet radio ( PRNET), packet satellite ( SATNET) and packet security technology. These efforts were rooted in the needs of the military. 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. 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. In 1992, he and Kahn, among others, founded the

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(ISOC) to provide leadership in education, policy and standards related to the Internet. Cerf served as the first president of ISOC. Cerf rejoined MCI during 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, 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

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, a university for the education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Cerf himself is hard of hearing. He has also served on the university's Board of Associates. Cerf, as leader of MCI's internet business, was criticized due to MCI's role in providing the IP addresses used by Send-Safe.com, a vendor of spamware that uses a

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in order to send spam. MCI refused to terminate the spamware vendor. At the time, Spamhaus also listed MCI as the ISP with the most Spamhaus Block List listings. Cerf has worked for

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as a vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist since October 2005. In this function he has become well known for his predictions on how technology will affect future society, encompassing such areas as

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, environmentalism, the advent of

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and the transformation of the television industry and its delivery model. Since 2010, Cerf has served as a Commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, a UN body which aims to make broadband internet technologies more widely available. Cerf helped fund and establish

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, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. 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

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's IT Advisory Council (from March 2002 – January 2012). He is also a member of the advisory board of Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy. Cerf is also working on the Interplanetary Internet, together with

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and other NASA laboratories. 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

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's hearing on net neutrality. Speaking as Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, Cerf noted that nearly half of all consumers lacked meaningful choice in broadband providers and expressed concerns that without network neutrality government regulation, broadband providers would be able to use their dominance to limit options for consumers and charge companies like Google for their use of bandwidth. Cerf currently serves on the board of advisors of

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, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government. He also 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. Cerf was elected as the president of the

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in May 2012ACM Elects Vint Cerf as President
from the ACM website and joined the Council on CyberSecurity's Board of Advisors in August 2013. From 2011 to 2016, Cerf was chairman of the board of trustees of

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, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) of IP addresses for United States, Canada, and part of the Caribbean. Until Fall 2015, Cerf chaired the board of directors of

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, a non-profit anti-malware organization that started as a project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Cerf is on the board of advisors to The Liquid Information Company Ltd of the UK, which works to make the web more usefully interactive and which has produced the Mac OS X utility called 'Liquid'. Vint Cerf is a member of the

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Advisory Board. During 2008, Cerf chaired the

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(IDNAbis) working group of the

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. In 2008 Cerf was a major contender to be designated the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer by President

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. Cerf is the co-chair of Campus Party Silicon Valley, the US edition of one of the largest technology festivals in the world, along with Al Gore and

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. From 2009 to 2011, Cerf was an elected member of the Governing Board of the

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(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. Cerf was elected to a two-year term as president of the

(ACM) beginning July 1, 2012. In 2015 Cerf co-founded (with Mei Lin Fung), and is currently chairman of, People-Centered Internet (PCI). On January 16, 2013, U.S. President

announced his intent to appoint Cerf to the

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. Cerf served until May 2018 when his six-year term expired. Cerf is also among the 15 members of governing council of

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. In June 2016, his work with NASA led to

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being installed on the

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with an aim towards an Interplanetary Internet. Since at least 2015, Cerf has been raising concerns about the wide-ranging risks of digital obsolescence, the potential of losing much historic information about our time – a digital "Dark Age" or "black hole" – given the ubiquitous digital storage of text, data, images, music and more. 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

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. He announced the news via a tweet in which he also criticized

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for the way he was handling the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. On April 3, 2020, Cerf announced via Twitter that VA Public Health had certified his wife and himself as no longer contagious with the virus.

Awards and honors

Cerf has received a number of honorary degrees, including doctorates, from the University of the Balearic Islands, ETHZ in Zurich, Switzerland,

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, Marymount University, Bethany College (Kansas),

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, University of Rovira and Virgili (

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, Spain),

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( Sweden),

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(Beijing),

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, UPCT (University of Cartagena, Spain), Zaragoza University (Spain),

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(United Kingdom), Royal Roads University (Canada), MGIMO (Moscow State University of International Relations), Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (Argentina),

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(Japan),

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(Scotland),

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and

(United States). Other awards include: *Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year Award from UCLA *

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for science and technology * Life Member IEEE *Fellow of the

, 1994 * Elected as a member into the

in 1995 for contributions to the design and development of network protocols and leadership in the evolution of the Internet. *

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, 1996 * SIGCOMM Award for "contributions to the Internet panningmore than 25 years, from development of the fundamental TCP/IP protocols". * Certificate of Merit from

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, in 1996. *In December 1997 he, along with his partner Robert E. Kahn, was presented with the National Medal of Technology by President

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, "for creating and sustaining development of Internet Protocols and continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of internetworking." * In 2000, he received the honorary doctorate degree from URV, Spain. *He received the Living Legend Medal from the Library of Congress in April 2000 *In 2000, he was made a Fellow of the

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"for his contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering." *Cerf was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) in 2000. *Cerf was awarded the Award of Technology from the Telluride Tech Festival in 2002, also known as the Tesla Festival since the world's first AC hydro-power power plant was built in Telluride in 1891 by L.L. 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

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, 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

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in May 2006 *Vinton Cerf was awarded the St. Cyril and Methodius in the Coat of Arms Order in July 2006 *Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn were each inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) in May 2006 *He and Robert Kahn were awarded the

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in January 2008. *Cerf was inducted into the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and given the

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of London in April 2008. *Cerf was awarded an honorary membership in the

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after keynoting a lively debate on the subject "Resolved: Online Communities are Real Communities." The motion passed. *In celebration of the five year-anniversary of YouTube he was selected as a guest

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by the site, and chose the six videos on YouTube he found most memorable. * IEEE-HKN Eta Kappa Nu Eminent Member, 2010 *In May 2011, he was awarded an HPI Fellowship as "...a tribute to his work for a new medium which influenced the everyday life of our society like no other one." *In September 2011 he was made a distinguished fellow of

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, in recognition of his outstanding contribution and service to the advancement of computing. *In 2012 he was inducted as a Pioneer into the Internet Hall of Fame *In 2013, Cerf was one of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. * In 2013, Cerf presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture * In 2014, Cerf was awarded the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st class for his role in invention of TCP/IP by president of

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Toomas Hendrik Ilves * In 2014, Cerf was awarded Officer of the French Légion d'honneur * In 2015, Cerf received an honorary doctorate from the

, UK. * Cerf was elected a Foreign Member of The UK Royal Society in 2016 * In 2018, Cerf was named a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal * In 2018, Cerf was awarded Catalonia's International Award

Partial bibliography

Author

*''Zero Text Length EOF Message'' (, August 1969) *''IMP-IMP and HOST-HOST Control Links'' (, September 1969) *''ASCII format for network interchange'' (, October 1969) *''Host-host control message formats'' (, October 1969) *''Data transfer protocols'' (, May 1971) *''PARRY encounters the DOCTOR'' (, January 1973) *'' 'Twas the night before start-up'' (, December 1985) *''Report of the second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group'', , August 1989 * ''Internet Activities Board'', , September 1989 * ''Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network'', , July 1990 * ''Networks'',

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, September 1991 * ''Guidelines for Internet Measurement Activities'', October 1991 *''A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY'', , April 1, 1994 *''An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols'', , April 1995 *''I REMEMBER IANA'', , October 17, 1998 * ''Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR'', , April 1, 1999 *''The Internet is for Everyone'', , April 2002

Co-author

* Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn
''A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication''
(

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Transactions on Communications, May 1974) * Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal, Carl Sunshine, ''Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program'' (, December 1974) * Vinton Cerf, Jon Postel, ''Mail transition plan'' (, September 1980) * Vinton Cerf, K.L. 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. Paten
6,418,138
* Vinton Cerf et al., ''System for Distributed Task Execution'' June 3, 2003, U.S. Paten
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".)

References

External links

Bio at Google

Vint Cerf
on the

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Dr. Vint Cerf on "Reinventing the Internet"
(YouTube).

. (May 13, 2013) * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cerf, Vint 1943 births Living people 20th-century American inventors 21st-century American inventors American computer scientists American software engineers Draper Prize winners Engineers from Connecticut Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Foreign Members of the Royal Society Google employees Internet pioneers Internet Society people Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences National Medal of Technology recipients Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Presidents of the Association for Computing Machinery Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class Scientific American people Scientists from New Haven, Connecticut Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni Technology evangelists Turing Award laureates UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Van Nuys High School alumni Stanford University faculty American people of German-Jewish descent