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.
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.
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.
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.
In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown,