Vint Cerf

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Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf; 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>