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
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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.
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.
The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.