Vint Cerf
Vinton G. Cerf is commonly referred to as the "father of the
Internet". During his tenure from
1976-
1982 with the
United States Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (
DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies, including co-designing the
TCP/IP protocol. As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from
1982-
1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial
email service to be connected to the Internet. In December
1997, he was presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology by President
Bill Clinton, along with his partner
Robert E. Kahn, for these accomplishments.
Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorates from the University of the Balearic Islands, ETH in Switzerland, Capitol College and Gettysburg College.
He is the author of several RFCs, and founder of ISOC.
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