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Vint Cerf

Vinton Gray Cerf[2] ForMemRS[1] (/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.[7][8][9][10]

Vinton Cerf
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Vinton Gray Cerf

(1943-06-23) June 23, 1943
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.

Stanford University (BS)
University of California, Los Angeles (MS, PhD)

TCP/IP
Internet Society

Telecommunications

IBM,[2] International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad,[2][3] UCLA,[2] Stanford University,[2] DARPA,[2] MCI,[2][4] CNRI,[2] Google[5]

Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation (1972)

Gerald Estrin[6]

research.google.com/pubs/author32412.html

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.

Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year Award from UCLA

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for science and technology[75]

Prince of Asturias award

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Life Member IEEE

Fellow of the for contribution and leadership in the design, development, and application of internet protocols.[77]

IEEE

Fellow of the , 1994[78][79]

Association for Computing Machinery

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.

National Academy of Engineering

1996[80][81]

Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award

for "contributions to the Internet [spanning] more than 25 years, from development of the fundamental TCP/IP protocols".[82]

SIGCOMM Award

from The Franklin Institute, in 1996.[83]

Certificate of Merit

In December 1997 he, along with his partner Robert E. Kahn, was presented with the by President Bill Clinton, "for creating and sustaining development of Internet Protocols and continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of internetworking."[84][85]

National Medal of Technology

Stibitz-Wilson Award from the in 1999.[86]

American Computer & Robotics Museum

In 2000, he received the honorary doctorate degree from URV, Spain.

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He received the from the Library of Congress in April 2000.[88]

Living Legend Medal

In 2000, he was made a Fellow of the "for his contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering."[89]

Computer History Museum

Cerf was selected as a Fellow of the (AWIS) in 2000.

Association for Women in Science

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.

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Cerf and Kahn were the winners of the for 2004,[11] for their "pioneering work on internetworking, including .. the Internet's basic communications protocols .. and for inspired leadership in networking."[91]

Turing Award

In November 2005, Vinton Cerf and Kahn were awarded the by President George W. Bush for their contributions to the creation of the Internet.[12]

Presidential Medal of Freedom

He and Robert Kahn were inducted into the in May 2006.[83]

National Inventors Hall of Fame

Vinton Cerf was awarded the St. Cyril and Methodius in the Coat of Arms Order in July 2006

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Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn were each inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the (STC) in May 2006

Society for Technical Communication

He and Robert Kahn were awarded the in January 2008.[93]

Japan Prize

Cerf was inducted into the and given the Freedom of the City of London in April 2008.[83]

Worshipful Company of Information Technologists

Cerf was awarded an honorary membership in the after keynoting a lively debate on the subject "Resolved: Online Communities are Real Communities." The motion passed.[94]

Yale Political Union

In celebration of the five year-anniversary of YouTube he was selected as a guest by the site, and chose the six videos on YouTube he found most memorable.[95]

curator

IEEE-HKN Eminent Member, 2010[96]

Eta Kappa Nu

In May 2011, he was awarded an Fellowship as "...a tribute to his work for a new medium which influenced the everyday life of our society like no other one."[97]

HPI

In September 2011 he was made a distinguished fellow of , in recognition of his outstanding contribution and service to the advancement of computing.[98]

British Computer Society

In 2012 he was inducted as a Pioneer into the [99]

Internet Hall of Fame

In 2013, Cerf was one of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural .[100]

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

In 2013, Cerf presented the [101]

Bernard Price Memorial Lecture

In 2014, Cerf was awarded the , 1st class for his role in invention of TCP/IP by president of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves[102]

Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana

In 2014, Cerf was awarded Officer of the [103]

French Légion d'honneur

In 2015, Cerf received an honorary doctorate from the , UK.[104]

University of Reading

Cerf was elected a [1]

Foreign Member of The UK Royal Society in 2016

In 2018, Cerf was named a recipient of the [105]

Benjamin Franklin Medal

In 2018, Cerf was awarded Catalonia's International Award

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In 2023, Cerf was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor for co-creating the Internet architecture and providing sustained leadership in its phenomenal growth in becoming society's critical infrastructure

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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,[71] George Mason University, Marymount University, Bethany College (Kansas), University of Pisa, University of Rovira and Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,[72] 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[73] Gallaudet University (United States). Other awards include:

History of the Internet

List of Internet pioneers

List of pioneers in computer science

and Donald Davies, independently invented packet-switched networks

Paul Baran

Protocol Wars

Cerf, Vinton G. (April 24, 1990), , Minnesota, Minneapolis: Charles Babbage Institute

Oral history interview with Vinton G. Cerf

Cerf, Vinton (May 17, 1999), , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Dr. Vinton Cerf: An Interview Conducted by David Hochfelder

Bio at Google

on the ICANN wiki

Vint Cerf

(YouTube). Internet Society. (May 13, 2013)

Dr. Vint Cerf on "Reinventing the Internet"

at TED

Vint Cerf

on C-SPAN

Appearances