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Vint Cerf
Since October 2005, Vint Cerf has served as VP and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. In addition to serving as another public face for the company, he helps to identify new technologies or companies that may be of interest to Google. From 1994 to 2005, Vint served as SVP of MCI, where he focused on Internet technology and technology strategy. He served as VP of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives from 1986-1994 and as VP of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982 to 1986, where he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.
Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Vint is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. During his tenure from 1976 to 1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Vint played a key role in leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. In 1997, President Clinton presented Vint with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2005 and the Japan Prize in 2008.
Vint received a BS in mathematics from Stanford University and MS and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from UCLA. |
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