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|caption    = Vint Cerf in [[Lisbon]], March 2007.
 
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|workplaces  = [[IBM]]<ref name="vita">[http://www.icann.org/correspondence/cerf-testimony-08feb01.htm#Vita Cerf's ''curriculum vitae'' as of February 2001], attached to a transcript of his testimony that month before the [[United States House Energy Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet]], from [[ICANN]]'s website</ref>, [[UCLA]]<ref name="vita"/>, [[Stanford University]]<ref name="vita"/>, [[DARPA]]<ref name="vita"/>, [[MCI Inc.|MCI]]<ref name="vita"/><ref name="washpost">[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/gore032199.htm  Gore Deserves Internet Credit, Some Say], a March 1999 ''[[Washington Post]]'' article</ref>, [[Corporation for National Research Initiatives|CNRI]]<ref name="vita"/>, [[Google]]<ref name="google">[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/vintcerf.html Cerf's up at Google], from the [[Google]] Press Center</ref>
 
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'''Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf'''<ref name="vita"/> ({{IPA2|sɝf}}; born June 23, 1943) is an [[United States|American]] [[computer scientist]] who is the "person most often called '[[People known as the father or mother of something#Technology|the father]] [[History of the Internet|of the Internet]]'."<ref name="washpost"/><ref>[http://tap.gallaudet.edu/emergency/nov05conference/Remarks/Goldberg.asp Making Televised Emergency Information Accessible] from the [[Gallaudet University]] website</ref><ref>Although its a title he objects to (see [http://www.gcn.com/print/25_2/38005-1.html?topic=interview Interview with Vinton Cerf], from a January 2006 article in ''[[Government Computer News]]''), Cerf is willing to call himself one of the Internet's fathers, citing [[Bob Kahn]] and [[Leonard Kleinrock]] in particular as being others with whom he should share that title.</ref>  His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the [[National Medal of Technology]],<ref name="vita"/> the [[Turing Award]],<ref name="turing">[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/technology/16internet.html?oref=login Cerf wins Turing Award] Feb 16, 2005</ref> and the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].<ref name="whitehouse">[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051109-10.html 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients] from the White House website</ref>
'''Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf'''<ref name="vita"/> ({{IPA2|sɝf}}; born June 23, 1943) is an [[United States|American]] [[computer scientist]] who is the "person most often called '[[People known as the father or mother of something#Technology|the father]] [[History of the Internet|of the Internet]]'."<ref name="washpost"/><ref>[http://tap.gallaudet.edu/emergency/nov05conference/Remarks/Goldberg.asp Making Televised Emergency Information Accessible] from the [[Gallaudet University]] website</ref><ref>Although its a title he objects to (see [http://www.gcn.com/print/25_2/38005-1.html?topic=interview Interview with Vinton Cerf], from a January 2006 article in ''[[Government Computer News]]''), Cerf is willing to call himself one of the Internet's fathers, citing [[Bob Kahn]] and [[Leonard Kleinrock]] in particular as being others with whom he should share that title.</ref>  His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the [[National Medal of Technology]],<ref name="vita"/> the [[Turing Award]],<ref name="turing">[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/technology/16internet.html?oref=login Cerf wins Turing Award] Feb 16, 2005</ref> and the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].<ref name="whitehouse">[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051109-10.html 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients] from the White House website</ref>
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Cerf has worked for [[Google]] as its [[Vice President]] and Chief [[Technology evangelist|Internet Evangelist]] since September 2005.<ref name="google"/> In this role he has become well known for his predictions on how technology will affect future society, encompassing such areas as [[artificial intelligence]], environmentalism, the advent of [[IPv6]] and the transformation of the television industry and its delivery model.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/09/08/dlbroad08.xml The Daily Telegraph], August, 2007</ref>
 
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==Career==
 
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Cerf's first job after obtaining his B.S. in Mathematics from [[Stanford University]] was at [[IBM]], where he worked for less than two years as a [[systems engineer]] supporting [[QUIKTRAN]].<ref name="vita"/>  He left IBM to attend graduate school at [[UCLA]] where he earned his [[master's degree]] in 1970 and his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] degree in 1972<ref name="UCLAEngineering2005">{{cite web|url=http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/magazine/Spring05/turing.html|title=UCLA School of Engineering Alumnus Chosen for Prestigious Turing Award|publisher=[[UCLA]] Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science|date=Spring 2005}}</ref>.  During his graduate student years, he studied under Professor [[Gerald Estrin]], worked in Professor [[Leonard Kleinrock]]'s [[data packet]] networking group that connected the first two nodes of the [[ARPANet]] <ref name="CNN1999_09_02">{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/02/internet.anniv/|publisher=[[CNN]]|title=Internet predecessor turns 30|date=1999-09-02}}</ref>, the predecessor<ref name="CNN1999_09_02"/> to the [[Internet]], and  "contributed to a host-to-host protocol" for the ARPANet<ref name="ACM2005_02_16"/>.  While at [[UCLA]], he also met [[Robert E. Kahn]], who was working on the [[ARPANet]] hardware architecture<ref name="ACM2005_02_16">{{cite web|url=http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/2_2005/turing_2_14_2005.cfm|publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]]|date=2005-02-16|title=INTERNET PIONEERS CERF AND KAHN TO RECEIVE ACM TURING AWARD}}</ref>. After receiving his doctorate, Cerf became an [[Professor#Assistant professor|assistant professor]] at [[Stanford University]] from 1972-1976, where he "conducted research on packet network interconnection protocols and co-designed the DoD TCP/IP protocol suite with Kahn.<ref name="ACM2005_02_16"/><!--  better to use third-part sources, according to Wikipedia policy at [[WP:Reliable sources]] -->
 
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[[Image:Vinton Cerf-20070512.jpg|thumb|right|Cerf playing [[Spacewar!]] on the [[Computer History Museum]]'s [[PDP-1]], [[ICANN]] meeting, 2007.]]  Cerf then moved to [[DARPA]] in 1976, where he stayed until 1982.
 
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As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, Cerf led the engineering of [[MCI Mail]], the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. Cerf rejoined MCI in 1994 and served as Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy. In this role, he helped to guide corporate strategy development from a technical perspective. Previously, he served as MCI's senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks, including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.
 
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In 1997, Cerf joined the Board of Trustees of [[Gallaudet University]], a university for the education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing.<ref>[http://news.gallaudet.edu/newsreleases/index.asp?ID=2898 Dr. Vinton G. Cerf Appointed to Gallaudet University's Board of Trustees], from that university's website</ref> Cerf is hard of hearing.<ref>[http://deafness.about.com/cs/celebfeatures/a/vintoncerf.htm Vinton Cerf - Father of the Internet, Vinton Cerf<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
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Cerf joined the board of the [[ICANN|Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers]] (ICANN) in 1999, and served until the end of 2007; .<ref>[http://www.icann.org/biog/cerf.htm ICANN Board of Directors - Vinton G. Cerf]</ref>
 
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Cerf is a member of the Bulgarian President [[Georgi Parvanov]]'s IT Advisory Council, a group created by Presidential Decree on March 8, 2002.<ref>[http://www.president.bg/en/adm_sit.php IT Advisory Council (PITAC)] from the official website of the [[List of Presidents of Bulgaria|President of Bulgaria]]</ref>  He is also a member of the Advisory Board of [[Eurasia Group]], the political risk consultancy.<ref>[http://www.eurasiagroup.net/about/index_people.php Eurasia Group<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
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Cerf is also working on the [[Interplanetary Internet]], together with [[NASA]]'s [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]]. It will be a new standard to communicate from planet to planet, using radio/laser communications that are highly tolerant to signal degradation.<ref>[http://www.ipnsig.org/ The InterPlaNetary Internet Project IPN Special Interest Group]</ref>
 
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In February 2006, Cerf testified before the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce|U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation]]'s Hearing on “[[Network Neutrality]]”.<ref>[http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/cerf-020706.pdf Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce]</ref>
 
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Cerf currently serves on the board of advisors of [[Scientists and Engineers for America]], an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government.<ref>http://www.sefora.org/board_of_advisors.php</ref>
 
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Cerf is on the board of advisors of The Hyperwords Company Ltd of the UK, which works to make the web more usefully interactive and which has produced the free Firefox Add-On called '[[Hyperwords]]'. <ref>http://www.hyperwords.net/about_us_adv.html</ref>
 
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In 2008 Cerf chaired the [[Internationalized domain name|IDNAbis]] working group of the [[IETF]].<ref>[http://tools.ietf.org/wg/idnabis IDNAbis WG]</ref>
 
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Cerf is a leading contender to be designated the nation's first [[Chief Technology Officer]] by President [[Barack Obama]]. <ref>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16189.html</ref>
 
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==Awards and honors==
 
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Cerf has received a number of honorary degrees, including doctorates, from the [[University of the Balearic Islands]], [[ETH]] in [[Switzerland]], [[Capitol College]], [[Gettysburg College]], [[George Mason University]], [[Marymount University]], [[University of Pisa]], [[University of Rovira and Virgili]] ([[Tarragona]], [[Spain]]), [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]], [[Luleå University of Technology]] ([[Sweden]]), [[University of Twente]] ([[Netherlands]]), [[Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications]], [[Polytechnic University (New York)|Brooklyn Polytechnic]], UPCT (University of Cartagena, [[Spain]]) and Royal Roads University (Canada)
 
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Further awards include:
 
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[[Image:CerfKahnMedalOfFreedom.jpg|thumb|220px|Cerf and [[Bob Kahn|Bob E. Kahn]] being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush]]
 
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[[Image:CerfParvanov.jpg|thumb|220px|Cerf and Bulgarian President Parvanov being awarded the St.St. Cyril and Methodius in the Coat of Arms Order]]
 
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*Prince of Asturias award for science and technology
 
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*Fellow of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]]
 
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*[[Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award]]
 
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*[[SIGCOMM Award]] for "contributions to the Internet [spanning] more than 25 years, from development of the fundamental TCP/IP protocols".<ref>[http://www.sigcomm.org/awards.html SIGCOMM Awards<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
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*In December 1997 he, along with his partner Robert E. Kahn, was presented with the [[National Medal of Technology]] by President [[Bill Clinton]], "for creating and sustaining development of Internet Protocols and continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of internetworking."<ref>http://www.ostp.gov/html/motmos.html</ref>
 
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*He received the [[Living Legend Medal]] from the Library of Congress in April 2000
 
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*Cerf was selected as a Fellow of the [[Association for Women in Science]] (AWIS) in 2000
 
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*Cerf and Kahn were the winners of the [[Turing Award]] for 2004,<ref name="turing"/> for their "pioneering work on [[internetworking]], including .. the Internet's basic [[communications protocols]] .. and for inspired leadership in networking."<ref>[http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=8047952&srt=all&aw=140&ao=AMTURING ACM: Fellows Award / Vinton G. Cerf<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
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*In November 2005, Vinton Cerf and Kahn were awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by President [[George W. Bush]] for their contributions to the creation of the Internet.<ref name="whitehouse"/>
 
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*He and Robert Kahn were inducted into the [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] in May 2006
 
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*Vinton Cerf was awarded the St.St. Cyril and Methodius in the Coat of Arms Order in July 2006 <ref>[http://isoc.bg/it-delegation.html ISOC-Bulgaria: IT-delegation in Sofia]</ref>
 
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*Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn were each inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the [[Society for Technical Communication]] (STC) in May 2006
 
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*He and Robert Kahn were awarded the [[Japan Prize]] in January 2008.<ref>[http://www.japanprize.jp/prize/2008/e1_cerf_kahn.htm 2008 (24th) Japan Prize Laureate<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
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*Cerf was inducted into the [[Worshipful Company of Information Technologists]] and given the [[Freedom of the City]] of London in April 2008.
 
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==Partial bibliography==
 
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[[Image:Vinton Cerf.jpg|thumb|Cerf speaking at the [[National Library of New Zealand]].]]
 
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[[Image:Vint Cerf, Bangalore 2007 3.jpg|right|thumb|Cerf at a conference in Bangalore.]]
 
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[[Image:VintCerfJI3.jpg|right|thumb|Cerf at 2007 Los Angeles ICANN meeting.]]
 
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[[Image:Cerfs up.jpg|right|thumb|License plate circa 1996.]]
 
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===As author===
 
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*''Zero Text Length EOF Message'' (RFC 13, August 1969)
 
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*''IMP-IMP and HOST-HOST Control Links'' (RFC 18, September 1969)
 
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*''ASCII format for network interchange'' (RFC 20, October 1969)
 
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*''Host-host control message formats'' (RFC 22, October 1969)
 
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*''Data transfer protocols'' (RFC 163, May 1971)
 
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*''PARRY encounters the DOCTOR'' (RFC 439, January 1973)
 
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*'' 'Twas the night before start-up'' (RFC 968, December 1985)
 
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*''Report of the second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group'', RFC 1109, August 1989
 
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* ''Internet Activities Board'', RFC 1120, September 1989
 
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* ''Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network'', RFC 1167, July 1990
 
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* ''Networks'', [[Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks]], September, 1991
 
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* ''Guidelines for Internet Measurement Activities'', October 1991
 
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*''A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY'', RFC 1607, April 1, 1994
 
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*''An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols'', RFC 1790, April 1995
 
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*''I REMEMBER IANA'', RFC 2468, October 1998
 
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* ''Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR'', RFC 1217, April 1 1999
 
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*''The Internet is for Everyone'', RFC 3271, April 2002
 
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===As co-author===
 
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* Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, ''A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication'' ([[IEEE]] Transactions on Communications, May 1974)
 
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* Vinton Cerf, Y. Dalal, C. Sunshine, ''Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program'' (RFC 675, December 1974)
 
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* Vinton Cerf, [[Jon Postel]], ''Mail transition plan'' (RFC 771, September 1980)
 
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* Vinton Cerf, K.L. Mills ''Explaining the role of GOSIP'', RFC 1169, August 1990
 
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* Clark, Chapin, Cerf, Braden, Hobby, ''Towards the Future Internet Architecture'', RFC 1287, December 1991
 
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* Vinton Cerf et al., ''A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service'', RFC 1430, February 1993
 
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* Vinton Cerf & [[Bob Kahn]], ''Al Gore and the Internet,''  [[2000-09-28]]<ref>[http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200009/msg00052.html IP: Al Gore's support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn [ I second<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
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* Vinton Cerf et al., ''Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture (Informational Status)'', RFC 4838, April 2007
 
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==External links==
 
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{{wikinews|Google hires Vint Cerf, the "father of the Internet"}}
 
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{{commons|Category:Vinton Cerf|Vint Cerf}}
 
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*[http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=118 Oral history interview with Vinton G. Cerf].  [[Charles Babbage Institute]] University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.  Cerf describes his involvement with the ARPA network, including his work for the Network Measurement Center at UCLA, and his relationships with Bolt Beranek and Newman, Robert Kahn, Lawrence Roberts, and the Network Working Group. Aso discusses development of the TCP/IP protocol, IPTO funding at Stanford University, his decision in 1976 to become a program manager for networking projects at IPTO, and the military use of IPTO networking projects.
 
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*[http://www.govtech.com/gt/video/?fr_story=bf85a3498f6108148c41aa2af293f4722847eb6f&rf=bm Vint Cerf video lecture "The Internet in 2035"]
 
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*[http://www.govtech.com/gt/video/?fr_story=84cecf4a6c208ea97fd568a8a99a40faebf044e6&rf=bm Vint Cerf video interview on the evolution of the Internet]
 
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*[http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com/2009/02/22/connections-050-history-of-the-internet-part-i/ Vint Cerf audio interview on The History of the Internet: Part I - Past] - 16 minutes. Precursors & origins of the Internet
 
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*[http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com/2009/03/08/connections-051-history-of-the-internet-part-ii-present/ Vint Cerf audio interview on The History of the Internet: Part II - Present] - 18 minutes. Internet Neturality, Cloud Computing, Open Source / Collaboration
 
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*[http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com/2009/03/22/connections-052-history-of-the-internet-part-iii-future/ Vint Cerf audio interview on The History of the Internet: Part III - Future] - 12 minutes. NASA's Interplanetary Internet, Speech & Gestural Interfaces, Quantum Entaglement
 
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*[http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/cerf.html Internet Pioneers - Vint Cerf]
 
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*[http://icannwiki.org/Vinton_Cerf ICANNWiki on Vint Cerf]
 
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*[http://ondemand.video.t-online.hu/mte/070402_vint_eloadas_angol_szeles.wmv Vint Cerf on "Freedom of the Internet"], 45 mins., official web stream of presentation for Hungarian "TV University", March 2007
 
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* [http://www.deaflife.com/back_issue/listing/113.html DeafLife features on Vint Cerf, November 1997]
 
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* [http://www.hwswworld.com/uploaddownload/interview/vint.mp3 Vint Cerf Frontier Visionary Interview with Frontier Journal]
 
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* Vint Cerf lecture [http://www1.city.ac.uk/news/archive/2008/04_april/16042008_2.html "Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century"] for the [[Worshipful Company of Information Technologists]] at [[City University London]] in April 2008.
 
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* [http://tv.oneworld.net/2008/09/26/vint-cerf-on-the-future-of-the-internet-and-more/ Vint Cerf on the future of the internet]
 
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* Vinton Cerf on [[IPv6]], [http://www.yovisto.com/video/6393 video keynote] for the [http://www.ipv6council.de/events/german-ipv6-summit.html?L=0 German IPv6 summit 2008]
 
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* Vinton Cerf Headline [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Telecommunications_Council PTC's] [http://www.ptc.org/ptc09/ PTC'09 Conference] January 2009. Video:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR09wc7dqn8&feature=channel_page Part 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkkkz5QEpN0&feature=channel_page Part 2] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Z-ZRrv2UI&feature=channel_page Part 3]
 
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Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf<ref name="vita"/> (Template:IPA2; born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist who is the "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'."<ref name="washpost"/><ref>Making Televised Emergency Information Accessible from the Gallaudet University website</ref><ref>Although its a title he objects to (see Interview with Vinton Cerf, from a January 2006 article in Government Computer News), Cerf is willing to call himself one of the Internet's fathers, citing Bob Kahn and Leonard Kleinrock in particular as being others with whom he should share that title.</ref> His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology,<ref name="vita"/> the Turing Award,<ref name="turing">Cerf wins Turing Award Feb 16, 2005</ref> and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<ref name="whitehouse">2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients from the White House website</ref>

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