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
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
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.
In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
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.
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.