Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf ForMemRS,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 and packet switching inventors Paul Baran and Donald Davies, among others. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth23 June 1943
CountryUnited States of America
It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.
I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.
I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.
For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.
Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.
It would be a mistake to think that because a particular technology can be used to distribute illegal copies therefore you should just run away from it.
Companies that rely on the Internet for their business models should be contributing to guarantee that the Internet remains stable,
In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.
In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
In the absence of any meaningful competition in the consumer broadband market, and without?consumer safeguards, one would expect carriers to have the economic incentive -- and the opportunity -- to control users' online activities.
It's important for users to understand what risks they face and try to help them identify which software is likely to be problematic.
It probably doesn't hurt to have a few gray hairs around the building. I'm very much excited about working with young people because they don't know they can't do certain things, which can be helpful.
This doesn't constitute, in my mind, a competitive environment.
For the last decade, we have been amazed and delighted by what we can do online. And yet people feel increasingly powerless to stop unscrupulous individuals and companies from infecting their computers with programs that they didn't request. The providers of Internet services and software simply must get this problem under control so the users can realize the full potential of their access to the Internet.