Vint Cerf

Vinton Cerf
ForMemRS
Cerf in 2016
Born
Vinton Gray Cerf

(1943-06-23) June 23, 1943 (age 81)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma materStanford University (BS)
University of California, Los Angeles (MS, PhD)
Known forTCP/IP
Internet Society
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsTelecommunications
InstitutionsIBM,[2] International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad,[2][3] UCLA,[2] Stanford University,[2] DARPA,[2] MCI,[2][4] CNRI,[2] Google[5]
ThesisMultiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation (1972)
Doctoral advisorGerald Estrin[6]
Websiteresearch.google.com/pubs/author32412.html
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Vinton Gray Cerf (/sɜːrf/; 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.[2][7][8][9][10]

He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology,[2] the Turing Award,[11] the Presidential Medal of Freedom,[12] the Marconi Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

  1. ^ Anon (2016). "Dr Vint Cerf ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on April 29, 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cerf's curriculum vitae as of February 2001, attached to a transcript of his testimony that month before the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, from ICANN's website
  3. ^ "Governing Council - IIIT Hyderabad". www.iiit.ac.in. August 20, 2022.
  4. ^ Gore Deserves Internet Credit, Some Say, a March 1999 Washington Post article
  5. ^ Cerf's up at Google, from the Google Press Center
  6. ^ Cerf, Vinton (1972). Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation (PhD thesis). University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 4433713032.
  7. ^ (see Interview with Vinton Cerf Archived June 9, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, from a January 2006 article in Government Computer News), Cerf is willing to call himself one of the internet fathers, citing Bob Kahn and Leonard Kleinrock in particular as being others with whom he should share that title.
  8. ^ Cerf, V. G. (2009). "The day the Internet age began". Nature. 461 (7268): 1202–1203. Bibcode:2009Natur.461.1202C. doi:10.1038/4611202a. PMID 19865146. S2CID 205049153.
  9. ^ "ACM Turing Award, list of recipients". Awards.acm.org. Archived from the original on December 12, 2009. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  10. ^ "IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal". Ieee.org. July 7, 2009. Archived from the original on April 6, 2010. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  11. ^ Cerf wins Turing Award February 16, 2005
  12. ^ 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients from the White House website