Vint Cerf

Vinton " Vint " Cerf Gray ( born June 23, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut ) is an American computer scientist who is called along with others as " Father of the Internet ". 2004, the Turing Award of the Japan Prize he was awarded, in 2008.

Life

Vint Cerf was already interested in his childhood good at math and also to chemistry. After graduating from high school in Van Nuys 1961, he studied with a scholarship from North American Rockwell in Stanford mathematics with a Bachelor of Science in 1965. Subsequently, he worked as a systems engineer at QUIKTRAN - time-sharing system at IBM. Some years later he continued his studies at UCLA, earned in 1970 the degree of Master of Science for computer science and in 1972 Jerry Estrin work with multiprocessing, Semaphores and a Graph Model of Computation doctorate ( Ph.D.).

Cerf played a key role in the development of the Internet and the connection protocols used on the Internet. Already during his studies he submitted along with his high school friend and fellow student Steve Crocker for Jacobi system of ARPA an offer for the tender of the ARPANET. This was rejected, Cerf and Crocker, however, were integrated by Leonard Small Rocks Network Measurement Center in the installation of finally realized by Bolt Beranek and Newman, led by Bob Kahn ARPANET, and were under the supervision of Larry Roberts at the specification of the Arpanet host protocols involved.

After completing his studies Cerf was until 1976 an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford, the group led by Kahn assisted in the coordination of public demonstration of the ARPANET and developed following this with his students and Kahn the Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP) and the Internet Protocol ( IP). In September 1973, she presented a first version of TCP / IP, which was also published in May 1974. During his time at Stanford Cerf, the International Network Working Group, which later became the IFIP initiated.

Between 1976 and 1982 he was a program manager and later chief scientist at the Information Processing Techniques Office of the U.S. DARPA, where he led the company resulting from the Arpanet Internet project and further launched by Kahn projects to packet- switched data transmission via satellite and radio as well as a network security.

As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services between 1982 and 1986, he led the development of e -mail services MCI Mail. After that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, where he led research projects on digital library and electronic messaging. He also concluded there at MCI Mail to the Internet and thus created one of the first commercial applications. In 1994, he returned as vice president and later senior vice president at MCI and conducted now the expansion of the MCI network.

Vint Cerf is the author of several RFCs and founder of the Internet Society ( ISOC), which he was president from 1992 to 1995. From 1999 until 2007 he was on the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ), from 2000 to 2007 whose board. Since September 2005 he is also Vice - President and " Chief Internet Evangelist " at Google works. In this role he is to bring new technologies to improve Google's services identify and represent a figurehead for the company.

Cerf worked as a visiting scientist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the Interplanetary Network ( IPN), a future standard for communication between planets that uses radio and laser connections that are extremely tolerant of signal loss.

Cerf met in November 2013 at a workshop of the FTC and described the concept of privacy as a possible anomaly, which will be increasingly difficult to achieve.

Honors

1997 gave U.S. President Bill Clinton himself and Robert Kahn, the National Medal of Technology, the highest technology award from the United States, and in 2005 gave George W. Bush them the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Freedom Medal), one of the highest civilian awards in the United States. Also numerous other awards share the two of them, including the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1997, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002 ( with Tim Berners -Lee and Larry Roberts), 2004, the Turing Award and the Charles Stark Draper Price ( with Leonard Kleinrock and Larry Roberts), 2006, introduction to the National Inventors Hall of Fame and 2008, the Japan Prize.

Regardless of Kahn Cerf was, inter alia, Awarded the 1993 EFF Pioneer Award, 1997 and 2002, the Computerworld / Smithsonian Leadership Award, 1998 with the Marconi Fellowship Award and 2000 with the Living Legend Medal from the Library of Congress. People Magazine declared him in December 1994 to one of the 25 most fascinating personalities of the year.

In addition, Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE (1988 ), the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( 1990), ACM (1993 ), the National Academy of Engineering ( 1995) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995). He is or was a member of, inter alia, of ACM SIGCOMM (Chairman 1987-1991 ), Sigma Xi, the Collaboratory panel of the National Academy of Sciences (Chairman 1992-1993 ), the IEEE Communications Society (Chairman of the Internet Advisory Committee since 1999), the Internet Architecture Board (Chairman 1989 to 1992), the NATO Science Subcommittee on networking (Chairman 1994-1998 ), the Technical Advisory Board of General Magic, the National Association of Securities Dealers and the FCC, and the information Technology Advisory Committee of the U.S. President and the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov. He is the honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, which has the faster introduction of IPv6 prescribed, and is or was a member of the board of directors of, among other things Gallaudet University ( since 1997), Nuance Communications (since 1999) and of StopBadware.org. He further advised, inter alia, the United States National Library of Medicine, the Ministry of Education of the United States, the General Accounting Office, the National Security Agency, the National Science Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme, the Mitre Corporation and Salomon Brothers.

Cerf holds honorary doctorates of Gettysburg College, Capitol College, ETH Zurich, Luleå University of Technology, the University of the Balearic Islands, George Mason University, the Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Twente, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Yale University, New Haven and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

For 2010, the World Wide Web was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Since only institutions with personal representatives may be excellent, Vint Cerf G. was proposed together with Larry Roberts and Tim Berners- Lee.

  • 2011: Fellowship Award from the Hasso Plattner Institute
  • 2012: Inclusion in the Internet Hall of Fame as a founding member

Trivia

Cerf is hard of hearing since childhood and is dependent since the age of 14 on a hearing aid, which has claimed to have influenced his interest in written communication, especially e- mail. Since 1966, he is married to a deaf and has two sons with her. He is committed to the needs of the deaf and hearing impaired, he was from 1987 to 1991 on the Board of Directors of the Fairfax Resource Centre for the Hearing Impaired.

Cerf was a technical advisor for the TV series Mission Earth - They are among us, in which he also had a guest appearance as Chief of Staff of the U.S. president in 1998.

Writings

  • With CS Carr and Steve Crocker: HOST - HOST Communication Protocol in the ARPA Network. AFIPS Proceedings of the 1970 SJCC, pp. 589-597.
  • With Robert E. Kahn: A Protocol for Packet Network Inter Communications. IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol COM -22, No. 5, May 1974, p 637-648. (PDF, 1.41 MB )
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