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
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when we do get to the point where we need all the services in space that we have become accustomed to on Earth.
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 things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.
I'm still a strong proponent of getting IPv6 rolled out,
The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.
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.
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 started thinking about the past 25 years as the Internet evolved, and I thought, 'Gee, what should we be doing now so that in another 25 years, we are ready for whatever's coming?'
If you need to understand it to make policy, you should turn first to people who are scientists and engineers for factual information.
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.
So one of the most important things we can do in the industry is make sure that the threat of cyberattacks is minimized as much as possible.
Of course, you do have to get accustomed to being satisfied a little bit at second-hand by people who actually do some of the key work.
If it didn't work, then we couldn't have built the Internet.
Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.