Vint Cerf - wikipedia Vint Cerf Vint Cerf Vint Cerf at the Royal Society admissions day in 2016 Vinton Gray Cerf ( 1943 - 06 - 23 ) June 23, 1943 ( age 75 ) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Citizenship American Alma mater Stanford University UCLA Known for TCP / IP Internet Society Awards ACM Fellow ( 1994 ) IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal ( 1997 ) National Medal of Technology ( 1997 ) Marconi Prize ( 1998 ) Prince of Asturias Award ( 2002 ) Turing Award ( 2004 ) Presidential Medal of Freedom ( 2005 ) Japan Prize ( 2008 ) Harold Pender Award ( 2010 ) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering ( 2013 ) ForMemRS ( 2016 ) Scientific career Fields Telecommunications Institutions IBM, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, UCLA, Stanford University, DARPA, MCI, CNRI, Google, Thesis Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation ( 1972 ) Doctoral advisor Gerald Estrin Website research.google.com/pubs/author32412.html Signature Vinton Gray Cerf ForMemRS, ( / sɜːrf / ; born June 23, 1943 ) is an American Internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of `` the fathers of the Internet '', sharing this title with TCP / IP co-inventor Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize and membership in the National Academy of Engineering. In the early days, Cerf was a manager for the United States ' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) funding various groups to develop TCP / IP technology. When the Internet began to transition to a commercial opportunity during the late 1980s, Cerf moved to MCI where he was instrumental in the development of the first commercial email system ( MCI Mail ) connected to the Internet. Cerf was instrumental in the funding and formation of ICANN from the start. He waited a year before stepping forward to join the ICANN Board, and eventually became chairman. He was elected as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery in May 2012, and in August 2013 he joined the Council on CyberSecurity 's Board of Advisors. Cerf is active in many organizations that are working to help the Internet deliver humanitarian value to the world. He is supportive of innovative projects that are experimenting with new approaches to global problems, including the digital divide, the gender gap, and the changing nature of jobs. 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. Contents 1 Life and career 2 Awards and honors 3 See also 4 Partial bibliography 4.1 Author 4.2 Co-author 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Life and career Vinton Cerf in Vilnius, September 2010 Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Muriel ( née Gray ), a housewife, and Vinton Thurston Cerf, an aerospace executive. Cerf went to Van Nuys High School in California along with Jon Postel and Steve Crocker ; he wrote the former 's obituary. Both were also instrumental in the creation of the Internet. While in high school, Cerf worked at Rocketdyne on the Apollo program, including helping to write statistical analysis software for the non-destructive tests of the F - 1 engines. Cerf 's first job after obtaining his B.S. degree in mathematics from Stanford University was at IBM, where he worked for two years as a systems engineer supporting QUIKTRAN. He left IBM to attend graduate school at UCLA where he earned his M.S. degree in 1970 and his PhD degree in 1972. During his graduate student years, he studied under Professor Gerald Estrin, worked in Professor Leonard Kleinrock 's data packet networking group that connected the first two nodes of the ARPANet, the predecessor to the Internet, and `` contributed to a host - to - host protocol '' for the ARPANet. While at UCLA, he also met Bob Kahn, who was working on the ARPANet hardware architecture. After receiving his doctorate, Cerf became an assistant professor at Stanford University from 1972 -- 1976, where he conducted research on packet network interconnection protocols and co-designed the DoD TCP / IP protocol suite with Kahn. Cerf then moved to DARPA in 1976, where he stayed until 1982. Cerf playing Spacewar ! on the Computer History Museum 's PDP - 1, ICANN meeting, 2007 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. It was during this time, in 1992, that he and Kahn, among others, founded the Internet Society ( 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 Gallaudet University, 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 botnet 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 Google 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 artificial intelligence, environmentalism, the advent of IPv6 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 joined the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) 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 ). 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 NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory 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 U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 's hearing on network 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 Scientists and Engineers for America, 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 is chairman of the board of trustees of ARIN, 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 StopBadware, 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 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 US 's first Chief Technology Officer by President Barack Obama. 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 Tim Berners - Lee. From 2009 -- 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. Cerf was elected to a two - year term as President of the Association for Computing Machinery ( 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, US President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint Cerf to the National Science Board. Cerf is also among the 15 members of governing council of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. In June 2016 his work with NASA led to Delay - tolerant networking being installed on the International Space Station with an aim towards an Interplanetary Internet. Awards and honors This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( June 2015 ) Cerf and Bob E. Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush Cerf and Bulgarian President Parvanov being awarded the St. Cyril and Methodius in the Coat of Arms Order Cerf has received a number of honorary degrees, including doctorates, from the University of the Balearic Islands, ETHZ in Zurich, Switzerland, Capitol College, Gettysburg College, Yale University, George Mason University, Marymount University, Bethany College ( Kansas ), University of Pisa, University of Rovira and Virgili ( Tarragona, Spain ), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Luleå University of Technology ( Sweden ), University of Twente ( Netherlands ), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Tsinghua University ( Beijing ), Brooklyn Polytechnic, UPCT ( University of Cartagena, Spain ), Zaragoza University ( Spain ), University of Reading ( United Kingdom ), Royal Roads University ( Canada ), MGIMO ( Moscow State University of International Relations ), Buenos Aires Institute of Technology ( Argentina ), Polytechnic University of Madrid, Keio University ( Japan ), University of South Australia ( Australia ), University of St Andrews ( Scotland ), University of Pittsburgh and Gallaudet University ( United States ). Other awards include : ACM Fellow ( 1994 ) Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year Award from UCLA Prince of Asturias award for science and technology Fellow of the IEEE, 1988, `` for contributions and leadership in the design, development, and application of internet protocols '' Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1994, for `` vision and leadership in the design, implementation, evolution, and dissemination of the TCP / IP computer communication protocol suite '' Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award, 1996 SIGCOMM Award for `` contributions to the Internet ( spanning ) more than 25 years, from development of the fundamental TCP / IP protocols ''. Certificate of Merit from The Franklin Institute, in 1996. In December 1997 he, along with his partner Robert E. Kahn, was presented with the National Medal of Technology by President Bill Clinton, `` for creating and sustaining development of Internet Protocols and continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of internetworking. '' He received the Living Legend Medal from the Library of Congress in April 2000 In 2000, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum `` 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 internetworking, 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 National Inventors Hall of Fame 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 Japan Prize in January 2008. Cerf was inducted into the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and given the Freedom of the City of London in April 2008. Cerf was awarded an honorary membership in the Yale Political Union 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 curator by the site, and chose the six videos on YouTube he found most memorable. 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 British Computer Society, 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 Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves In 2014, Cerf was awarded Officer of the French Légion d'honneur Cerf was elected a Foreign Member of The UK Royal Society in 2016 In 2018, Cerf was named the recipient of Benjamin Franklin Medal See also List of pioneers in computer science Partial bibliography Cerf at 2007 Los Angeles ICANN meeting Vint Cerf, before his talk in memory of Dr. John Niparko at the 2017 MidWinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology in Baltimore Author Zero Text Length EOF Message ( RFC 13, August 1969 ) IMP - IMP and HOST - HOST Control Links ( RFC 18, September 1969 ) ASCII format for network interchange ( RFC 20, October 1969 ) Host - host control message formats ( RFC 22, October 1969 ) Data transfer protocols ( RFC 163, May 1971 ) PARRY encounters the DOCTOR ( RFC 439, January 1973 ) ' Twas the night before start - up ( RFC 968, December 1985 ) Report of the second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group, RFC 1109, August 1989 Internet Activities Board, RFC 1120, September 1989 Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network, RFC 1167, July 1990 Networks, Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September 1991 Guidelines for Internet Measurement Activities, October 1991 A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY, RFC 1607, April 1, 1994 An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols, RFC 1790, April 1995 I REMEMBER IANA, RFC 2468, October 17, 1998 Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research ( CSCR, RFC 1217, April 1, 1999 The Internet is for Everyone, RFC 3271, April 2002 Co-author Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication ( IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 1974 ) Vinton Cerf, Y. Dalal, C. Sunshine, Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program ( RFC 675, December 1974 ) Vinton Cerf, Jon Postel, Mail transition plan ( RFC 771, September 1980 ) Vinton Cerf, K.L. Mills Explaining the role of GOSIP, RFC 1169, August 1990 Clark, Chapin, Cerf, Braden, Hobby, Towards the Future Internet Architecture, RFC 1287, December 1991 Vinton Cerf et al., A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X. 500 Directory Service, RFC 1430, 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. Patent 6,574,628 Vinton Cerf et al., Delay - Tolerant Networking Architecture ( Informational Status ), RFC 4838, April 2007 Cerf writes under the column name `` CERF 'S UP '', and Cerf 's car has a vanity plate ( registration ) `` CERFSUP ''. 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( May 13, 2013 ) Vint Cerf at TED Appearances on C - SPAN Awards and achievements Preceded by Tadahiro Sekimoto IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal with Bob Kahn Succeeded by Richard Blahut Internet Hall of Fame Pioneers 2012 Paul Baran Vint Cerf Danny Cohen Steve Crocker Donald Davies Elizabeth J. Feinler Charles Herzfeld Robert Kahn Peter T. Kirstein Leonard Kleinrock John Klensin Jon Postel Louis Pouzin Lawrence Roberts 2013 David Clark David Farber Howard Frank Kanchana Kanchanasut J.C.R. Licklider Bob Metcalfe Jun Murai Kees Neggers Nii Quaynor Glenn Ricart Robert Taylor Stephen Wolff Werner Zorn 2014 Douglas Engelbart Susan Estrada Frank Heart Dennis Jennings Rolf Nordhagen Radia Perlman Global connectors 2012 Randy Bush Kilnam Chon Al Gore Nancy Hafkin Geoff Huston Brewster Kahle Daniel Karrenberg Toru Takahashi Tan Tin Wee 2013 Karen Banks Gihan Dias Anriette Esterhuysen Steve Goldstein Teus Hagen Ida Holz Qiheng Hu Haruhisa Ishida Barry Leiner George Sadowsky 2014 Dai Davies Demi Getschko Masaki Hirabaru Erik Huizer Steve Huter Abhaya Induruwa Dorcas Muthoni Mahabir Pun Srinivasan Ramani Michael Roberts Ben Segal Douglas Van Houweling 2017 Nabil Bukhalid Ira Fuchs Shigeki Goto Mike Jensen Ermanno Pietrosemoli Tadao Takahashi Florencio Utreras Jianping Wu Innovators 2012 Mitchell Baker Tim Berners - Lee Robert Cailliau Van Jacobson Lawrence Landweber Paul Mockapetris Craig Newmark Ray Tomlinson Linus Torvalds Phil Zimmermann 2013 Marc Andreessen John Perry Barlow Francois Fluckiger Stephen Kent Anne - Marie Eklund Löwinder Henning Schulzrinne Richard Stallman Aaron Swartz Jimmy Wales 2014 Eric Allman Eric Bina Karlheinz Brandenburg John Cioffi Hualin Qian Paul Vixie 2017 Jaap Akkerhuis Yvonne Marie Andres Alan Emtage Ed Krol Tracy LaQuey Parker Craig Partridge A.M. 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Question: who is known as the father of the internet
Answer: Vinton Gray Cerf