Vint Cerf
Father of the internet
- Vint Cerf is the editor of several RFCs and founder of ISOC in 1992.
- He is often called the “father of the internet”, since he is one of the co-authors of TCP/IP, which enabled the interconnection of many independent networks to form one big network – the internet.
- He was an excellent student (especially in math) and always had his own, unusual style since most of the time he went to school wearing a suit with a tie.
- Even today he is famous for his impeccable look and mostly wears three-piece suits.
- He was involved in the early design of ARPANET and he witnessed the first IMP being delivered to UCLA.
- In late 1968 he was part of a small group of students (UCLA, Stanford, University of Utah and UC Santa Barbara) who met regularly to discuss the new network and its development (they called themselves Network Working Group (NWG)).
- NWG was able to solve many of the problems, which emerged during the time of design and realisation of ARPANET (they didn’t recognise the importance of their work by this time, yet).
- "We were just rank amateurs, and we were expecting that some authority would finally come along and say, 'Here's how we are going to do it.' And nobody ever came along."
- In 1986, during his time with MCI he governed the development of MCI Mail, the first commercial e-mail service on the internet.
- In December 1997 Robert E. Kahn and Cerf were honoured with the National Medal of Technology by U.S. President Bill Clinton for their contributions.
Vint Cerf
born in 1943 in Connecticut
Course of studies in Stnaford and at UCLA
Stanford, ARPA, MCI Digital Information Services, ISOC, Google
