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's important for users to understand what risks they face and try to help them identify which software is likely to be problematic.
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.
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.
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.
This doesn't constitute, in my mind, a competitive environment.
Companies that rely on the Internet for their business models should be contributing to guarantee that the Internet remains stable,
You simply can't keep up with the technology, ... so the laws won't apply.
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.
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.
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.
We risk losing the Internet as a catalyst for consumer choice, for economic growth, for technological innovation and for global competitiveness.
You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.