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
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.
The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.
It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.
I think exploring the Internet's - and the Web's - ability to facilitate personal linkages is remarkable; and expect to see additional social networking applications and services emerge.
The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad range of business models.
In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.
There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.
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.
Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this?
I wish we were getting a handle on this problem, but I think it's pretty substantial. There's an uneasy feeling that going online is risky.
We're not confident that the funds will be made available and we don't want to rely on them, ... The GIP decided we should provide some certainty.
We risk losing the Internet as a catalyst for consumer choice, for economic growth, for technological innovation and for global competitiveness.
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.
It's important for users to understand what risks they face and try to help them identify which software is likely to be problematic.