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
Vinton Cerf quotes about
Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.
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 has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown,
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
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.
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.