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
Al Gore actually deserves a lot of credit. In about 1986, he started asking questions like, 'Why don't we take these supercomputers and these optical fiber networks and put them together. Would that do anything?' Well, guess what? That eventually turned into the National Science Foundation Network, which became a core element of the Internet.
Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies.
Cerf is a wicked smart guy who knows the ins and outs of the internet and internet policies better than anyone,
People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.
I'm still a strong proponent of getting IPv6 rolled out,
I expect that the entertainment industry will have gone through its own convulsion in the same way the telecom industry will have gone through its.
If it didn't work, then we couldn't have built the Internet.
when we do get to the point where we need all the services in space that we have become accustomed to on Earth.
Users will also begin using their mobile devices to control and manage other Internet-enabled appliances (kitchen equipment, entertainment equipments, etc.),
I would agree that the U.S. educational system, especially at the undergraduate and graduate levels, needs some work, but in the meantime, we seem to be cranking out people who are capable,
My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to the services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
There are a plethora of domain name servers which are below our level of visibility, and we have nothing to say about how those machines are operated.
The structure of the W3C didn't lend itself to quite the degree of freedom to contribute that the IETF does. We found it difficult to get points across and to influence what was happening.
Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success.