Vinton Cerf
Vinton 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...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth23 June 1943
CityNew Haven, CT
In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.
Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.
What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.