National Medal of Technology and Innovation 1997
One of two Fathers of the Internet. TCP/IP protocols. Internet
Architecture. Chief Internet Evangelist, Google. Interplanetary Internet.
Living Legend.
"Brilliant, indescribably enthusiastic, humorous, happy, treats people
extremely well. It would be nice to go to work every day and work with
people like Vint Cerf." – R.V. Nagaveni, Founder, Ganga Library.
Vita
Generously contributed by Vinton Cerf
Personal History
Educational History
Employment History
Professional Memberships, Activities and Awards
Member of the Technical Advisory Boards
Member of the Editorial Boards
Member of the Board of Directors
Television Series, Guest Appearances
Speaking Engagements and Professional Activities
Academic Honors
Public Service
Languages
Publications
6-28-2018
VINTON GRAY CERF
Personal History
Born: June 23, 1943 (same day and month as Alan Turing!)
Birthplace: Yale Hospital, New Haven, CT
Married: Sept 10, 1966 to Sigrid T. Cerf
Sons: David D. Cerf and Bennett C. Cerf
Educational History
Van Nuys High School, Van Nuys, CA Graduated: Feb 1961
B.S. Math, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 1965
M.S. Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1970
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1972
Employment History
February 2013 – May 2018
National Science Board
National Science Foundation
2415 Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Member of the National Science Board (appointed by the President of the U.S.)
October 2005 – Present
Google Inc.
1875 Explorer Street
Suite 1000
Reston, VA 20190
VP and Chief Internet Evangelist
Responsible for encouraging extensive development of Internet-based applications through out the Google enterprise. Serving as a public face for Google and an internal communications channel for product ideas and new technology application.
August 2003 – September 2005
MCI
22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115
Ashburn, VA 20147
Senior Vice President, Technology Strategy
Responsible for guiding corporate strategy, acquisitions and partnerships with regard to technology
January 2003 – August 2003
MCI
22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115
Ashburn, VA 20147
Senior Vice President for Architecture and Technology
Responsible for design and development of advanced voice, data and Internet networking systems.
January 2000 – Present
Gallup Corporation
The Gallup Building
901 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
Tel: +1.202.715.3030
Fax: +1.202.715.3045
Senior advisor to the CEO and CIO; Gallup supplies statistical information, polling and business advice to enterprises, governments and NGO’s, worldwide.
James Clifton, CEO; Philip Ruhlman, CIO
November 1999 – December 2002
WorldCom Corporation
22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115
Ashburn, VA 20147
Senior Vice President for Internet Architecture and Technology
Responsible for design and development of advanced networking and Internet systems
August 2000 – Present
IPN Group
1435 Woodhurst Blvd
McLean, VA 22102
President.
This is a California corporation set up to commercialize Interplanetary Protocols
developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The work is still too experimental for
such application, so the corporation has been essentially dormant.
November 1999 – November 2007
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 300
Marina del Rey, CA
Board member since November 1999
Chairman from November 2000 – November 2007
This was an unpaid position. The organization is a non-profit California corporation responsible for the management and coordination of the Internet’s unique identifiers
and parameters (Domain Names, Internet Addresses and Protocol parameters).
September 1998 – Nov 1999
MCI WorldCom Corporation
2100 Reston Parkway, 6th Floor
Reston, VA 20191
Senior Vice President for Internet Architecture and Technology
Responsible for design and development of advanced Internet systems
July 1998 – Present
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, California 91109-8099
Distinguished visiting scientist responsible for architecture and design of an interplanetary Internet
January 1997 – Sept 2000
World Business Review (with Casper Weinberger and Alexander Haig)
MultiMedia Productions
(Television Program on High Tech Businesses)
January 1996 – September 1998
MCI Communications Corporation
2100 Reston Parkway, 6th Floor
Reston, VA 20191
Senior Vice President for Internet Architecture and Engineering.
Responsible for design and engineering of MCI Internet system and services.
February 1994 - December 1995
MCI Telecommunications Corporation
2100 Reston Parkway, 6th Floor
Reston, VA 20191
Senior Vice President for Data Architecture.
Responsible for architectural design of MCI Data and Information Services
January 1992 – June 2001
Internet Society
11150 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 100
Reston, VA 20190-5321 USA
TEL: +1 703 326 9880
FAX: +1 703 326 9881
Chairman, Internet Societal Task Force (1999-2001)
Chairman of the Board (June 1998 – June 1999)
Vice President, Chapters (June 1997 – June 1998)
President (January 1992 – June 1995)
June 1986 - January 1994
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 22091
Vice President
Responsible for managing digital library, electronic messaging and Internet research projects.
October 1982 - May 1986
MCI Digital Information Services Company
2000 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Vice President of Engineering
Responsible for the design and implementation of MCI Mail.
September 1976 - September 1982
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO)
1400 Wilson Street, 7th Floor
Arlington, VA 22209
Program manager and later, Principal Scientist.
Responsible for the packet technology and network security research programs, including the DoD Internet project.
November 1972 - August 1976
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Conducted research on packet network interconnection protocols and co-designed the DoD TCP/IP protocol suite with Robert E. Kahn. Taught classes in operating systems, algorithms and data structures, networking.
March 1967 - October 1972
Computer Science Department
Boelter Hall
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Principal Programmer managing a number of projects including the ARPANET Network
Measurement Center, a videographics project including a computer-controlled 16 mm
camera. Participated in development of ARPANET host protocol specifications.
June 1965 - March 1967
IBM
3424 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
Systems Engineer supporting the QUIKTRAN time-sharing system.
Computer Communications Consulting; 1966 - Present
Consultant to the National Library of Medicine, Defense Communications Agency (now Defense Information Systems Agency), MCI Communications Corp., National Security Agency, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Systems Development Corp., International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Department of Education, Cabledata Corp., Jacobi Systems Corp., Systems Control Corp., GTE Sylvania Corp., ELSAG, Inc., National Science Foundation, Salomon Brothers, United Nations Development Programme, MTELCorporation, EQUIFAX Corporation, MITRE Corporation, General Accounting Office, ACM, IEEE, National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine, Department of Development (Ireland); Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce (NIST), Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Professional Memberships, Activities and Awards:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (Member since 1967),
(Fellow 1993, President 2012-2014; past President 2014-2016)
ACM Council (1990-1992; 2010-present)
ACM SIGCOMM (Member, since 1973), (Chairman 1987 - 1991)
ACM LA-SIGART (Member 1967 - 1972), (Chairman, 1968 - 1969)
ACM National Lecturer (1979 - 1980)
ACM Systems Software Award (for TCP/IP with R. E. Kahn), 1992
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow 1990
Chairman, Information, Computing and Communications Section, 2010-2011
American Academy for the Arts and Sciences, Fellow 1995
Sigma Xi (Member 1972 - Present)
IEEE (Member 1976, Senior Member 1980, Fellow 1988)
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award (for TCP/IP with R. E. Kahn), 1992
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Award (for Internet, with R. E. Kahn), 1997
IFIP - Chairman, IFIP Working Group 6.1 (1972 - 1976)
Member IFIP Working Groups 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5
Internet Architecture Board (Member 1985-1993), (Chairman 1989-1991)
Internet Society (Pioneer Member, since 1992), (Founding President 1992 - 1995),
Board of Trustees (1992 – Sept 2000), (Vice President for Chapters 1997-1998),
(Chairman 1998-1999), (Founding Chairman, Internet Societal Task Force,
March 1999-Sept 2000) IPV6 Forum (Honorary Chairman, July 1999 – present)
Federal Newsmaker Award (Federal Computer Week, 1989)
Datamation Hall of Fame, 1989
Brain Mapping Panel, Institute of Medicine 1990-1991
Rubin I. Altizer Award, 1992
Collaboratory Panel, National Academy of Science, chair, 1992 - 1993
Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, 1993
UNIFORUM Award, 1993
Dvorak Technology Award, 1993 (BBSCON)
Info World Technology Award, 1993 (on behalf of Internet Society)
National Cristina Foundation Award, 1995
NATO Science Subcommittee on Networking, Chairman 1994 - 1998
Networld/Interop Lifetime Achievement Award, 1994
PEOPLE Magazine, 25 Most Intriguing People of 1994, December 1994
National Academy of Engineering (Member, 1995; committee on membership 2001-2004)
Softquad/Rubinsky Award, 1995
Medal of the Ambassador of France, 1995
International Telecommunications Union Silver Medal, 1995
Industry Legend Award, Computer and Communications Industries Association, 1996
Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, 1996
Franklin Institute, Certificate of Merit, May 1996
Nippon Electronics Corporation Computers and Communications Award, 1996
ACM SIGCOMM Award, 1996
Internet Electronic Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award, 1997
National Medal of Technology (w/Robert Kahn), 1997 Awarded by President Bill Clinton
Member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee 1997- 2001
Marconi Fellowship Award, April 1998
Washington Association of Science Award, May 1998
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf Medal, June 1998
Computer Reseller News/Computer Museum Hall of Fame, Nov 1998
Fellow, International Engineering Consortium, June 1999
George R. Stibitz Computer Award, September 1999 (w/Robert Kahn)
Werner Wolter Award, Intelevent, September 1999
Millennium Evening with President and Mrs. Clinton, (w/Eric Lander) October 1999
Living Legend Medal, Library of Congress, April 2000
E-map World Communications Lifetime Achievement Award, Monaco, Nov 2000
Charles Stark Draper Award (w/Kahn, Kleinrock, Roberts) Feb 2001
Andrew Saks Engineering Award, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc, July 2001
J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, Computerworld, June 2002
Prince of Asturias Award, Oviedo, Spain, October 2002
World Institute on Disability Annual Award, San Francisco, November 2002
UCLA Engineering Alumnus of the Year Award, November 2003
National Medal of Science, Tunisia 2003
ACM Turing Award, 2004 (with Robert E Kahn), awarded June 2005
Presidential Medal of Freedom (w/Robert Kahn), Nov. 9, 2005 by President George W Bush
National Inventors Hall of Fame, May 2006 (w/Robert Kahn)
St. Cyril & St. Methodius (Collar) Order of Bulgaria, awarded 7/4/2006 by President Paranov
The Joseph Priestley Award, Dickinson College, September 2007
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, October 2007
The Japan Prize, April 23, 2008 (w/Robert Kahn)
Freeman of the City of London, April 2008
Member of the American Philosophical Society, April 2008
Cosmos Club McGovern Award 2008
Cosmos Club Member 2011 - present
Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, March 2009
Eminent Member, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) honor society of the IEEE, December 2009
Pender Award, University of Pennsylvania, February 2010 (w/Robert Kahn)
Lifetime Webby Award, New York City June 2010
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Eagle Award, April 2011
UCLA Alumnus of the Year, May 2011
Hasso Plattner Institute Fellow, May 2011
New Media Consortium Lifetime Achievement Award, June 2011
Life Achievement Award, Oxford Internet Institute, September 2011.
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, September 2011
Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award, April 2012
Internet Hall of Fame (Internet Society) – April 2012
Honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, 2012
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (with Robert Kahn, Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen and Louis Pouzin), March/June 2013
Terra Mariana Medal (First Class) of Estonia, May 2014
Computing Research Association Distinguished Service Award, June 2014
National Cyber Security Hall of Fame, August 2014
Elected Officer of the French Legion d’Honneur, December 2014
Honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers, Oct 2015
Murillo Toro Medal for Communications, Colombia, November 2015
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, UK, July 2016
Areté Medallion, Elon University, September 2016
George Gamow Memorial Lecture, University of Colorado, Feb 2018
Shannon Luminary Lecture, Nokia-Bell Laboratories, March 2018
Franklin Medal, May 2018
French-American Foundation Award, June 2018
Member of the Technical Advisory Boards of:
Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (US State Department) (Oct 2010 - Sept 2014)
Blastoff! (June 2000 – January 2001) Bulgarian President's Council for Information Technologies (2002 - 2009)
CoSine Corporation (January 2004 – December 2004)
COSMOS ID (June 2009 – present)
CRDF Foundation (2011 – present)
DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (Feb. 2012 - Feb. 2015)
Research Libraries Group (1988 - 1989)
Federal Networking Council (1990 - 1997)
Gallaudet Board of Associates (2010 – 2016)
General Magic, Inc. (1991 - 1992)
HP Strategic Technology Advisory Board (August 2002 – July 2005)
IPVerse (1999 – August 2001)
Bellcore (1992 - 1994) – acquired by SAIC
Cyras Systems (January 2000 – January 2001) - acquired
CSI, Inc. (1992 - 1995) – acquired by IRE
Intel Carrier Advisory Council (Jan 2002 – October 2005)
IRE, Inc. (1997 – September 2000)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (September 2001 – 2016)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ESNET Advisory Board (1 July 2011 - 30 June 2014)
Longitude Systems – (August 2000 – November 2001)
Metricom (May 2000 – July 2001)
Mount Wilson Council (March 2000 – June 2004)
National Association of Securities Dealers (June 2000 – June 2004)
Visiting Committee for Advanced Technology (VCAT) , National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST), Member (February 2007), Vice Chair (2008 - 2009),
Chair (2010 – February 2013). Guest Researcher (2013-present)
Technology Innovation Program Committee, NIST, 2009 - 2011
Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Governing Board, 2010 - 2011
Packet Design (June 2000 – December 2004)
Tribune Entertainment Company ("Earth: Final Conflict" 1997- September 2000)
B2BS (was SmartAge) (1999 – July 2001) – out of business
FCC Technology Advisory Board (Jan 1999 – Jan 2001) (Jan 2003 - 2007)(Jun 2011 – 2013)
Procket Networks (August 1999 – July 2004) - acquired
Streamcore (January 2000 – June 2003) - acquired
US Institute of Peace (Jan 2000 - present)
US President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (1997 - 2001)
VeriSign (March 2008 – December 2011)
Zero G Capital Fund (March 2000 – December 2003)
Member of the Editorial Boards of:
The Internet Protocol Journal (IPJ)
IEEE Computer Society Internet Computing Magazine (IC)
Member of the Board of Directors:
2BNatural Inc. (April 2000 – December 2002)
Airguide Photonics, Member of the Advisory Board, Southampton, June 2018 - present
Association for Computer Machinery (July 2010 – July 2014)
President (July 2012-June 2014); Past President (July 2014-June 2016)
AfriQ*Access, Inc (Oct 2000 – December 2002)
ARIN (January 2011-2016)
(Audit Committee chair 2012-2016; Governance Committee member 2012-2016; chairman 2013-2016)
AVANEX (December 1999 – April 2009) (acquired by Oclaro)
B2B Video Networks (April 2000 – June 2002)
Broadband for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Jan 2009 – 2010)
CoSine Corporation (April 2000 – December 31, 2003)
Digex, Incorporated (October 2002 – October 2003)
Folger Shakespeare Library (September 2000 – June 2005; March 2016 - present)
FTP Software (1994 - 1998) - acquired
Gallaudet University (January 1997 - June 2005)
The Gorilla Foundation (August 2011 – 2014)
ClearSight Systems (was Hynomics, Inc.) (September 1998 – December 2006)
Innovation for Jobs, 2013 - present
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (January 2015 – present)
Intaba Institute (June 2009 – 2013)
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Sept 1999 – Nov 2007) (chairman Nov. 2000 – Nov. 2007)
Internet Policy Institute (November 1999 – December 2001)
Internet Society (January 1992 – June 2001)
Interprophet (1998 – September 2000)
MarcoPolo Foundation (July 2002 – October 2005)
Marconi Society (March 2012- present) [Chairman, 2016-present, Vice Chairman 2012-2016,
Audit Committee chair, Selection Advisory Committee (2009-2012,
chair 2011-2012)]
MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, Member of the Advisory Board, November 2017-present
MCI Foundation (January 1999 – October 2005)
National Science & Technology Medals Foundation (2004 – present)
Vice Chairman and Treasurer (2006 – present)
Member of the Board of Directors, Fairfax Resource Center for the Hearing Impaired (1987 - 1991).
Nuance (December 1999 – December 2004)
People Centered Internet, 2012 - present
Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Governing Board, Nov 2009 – 31 December 2011
StopBadWare, December 2009 – August 2015 (Chairman, 2012 – August 2015)
UNICODE Consortium, July 2010 – 2013 (Board member)
Television Series, Guest Appearances
Earth: Final Conflict, Episode 21 ("Destruction") as Cy Vincent,
US President's Chief of Staff (5/3/1998)
World Business Review w/Casper Weinberger, guest expert,
(1996 - September 2000). (From June 2000-Jan 2001, w/Alexander Haig.)
CSPAN, October 12, 1999 - White House Millennium Evening with President Bill Clinton,
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Eric Lander
CSPAN, July 17, 2014 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Senator
John Rockefeller presiding.
Next Wave w/Leonard Nimoy, guest expert, (December 1999 )
Sam Donaldson's ABC.COM, December 29, 1999
Art and Entertainment Channel's Biographies of the Millennium, commenting on nine
of the 100 biographies, December 31, 1999
The History Channel, History of the Internet, Jan 31, 2000
The Colbert Report, July 15, 2014
Speaking Engagements and Professional Activities:
Keynote Speaker, 1st Latin American Symposium on Computer
Communication, Mexico City, May 1981.
Program Chairman, INFOCOM 82, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 1982
(sponsored by IEEE Computer and Communications Societies).
Keynote Speaker, INFOCOM 86, Miami, Florida, April 1986.
Keynote Speaker, DECUS Networking Special Interest Group, April 1986.
Keynote Speaker, TCP/IP Working Group Meeting, Monterey, Calif., August 1986
Keynote Speaker, SIGCOMM 87, Stowe, Vermont, August 1987.
Keynote Speaker, CRAY USERS GROUP, Minneapolis, April 1988.
Keynote Speaker, IFIP WG 6.1, Atlantic City, June 1988.
Keynote Speaker, IFIP Network Management Workshop, Boston, May 1989.
Plenary Speaker, INTEROP 89, San Jose, California, October 1989.
Keynote Speaker, Special Libraries Association, Boston, April 1990.
Keynote Speaker, NISO Annual Meeting, New York, September 1990.
Keynote Speaker, ASIS Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, May, 1992
Keynote Speaker, DFN Semi-Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, June 1993
Congressional Testimony, House Science Subcommittee, (Ch. Valentine), March, 1993
Keynote Speaker, INTEROP, Paris, France, October, 1993
Keynote Speaker, AFCEA, Fairfax, VA, January, 1994
Keynote Speaker, COMNET, Washington, DC, January, 1994
Invited Speaker, Powering Up North America, Toronto, Canada, February, 1994
Invited Speaker, Evolution of the Internet, HPCC, Alexandria, VA, March, 1994
Congressional Testimony, House Science Subcommittee, (Ch. Boucher), March, 1994
Invited Speaker, National Net '94, Washington, DC, April, 1994
Keynote Speaker, ATM II, Technology Transfer Institute, April, 1994
Invited Speaker, Internet Association of Japan Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, April, 1994
Master of Ceremonies and Keynote Speaker, Information Infrastructure, Ballston Partnership, April, 1994
Invited Speaker, ICC/Super Comm, New Orleans, May, 1994
Keynote Speaker, Lawfirm Communications Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May, 1994
Keynote Speaker, Rotary Club International, Arlington, VA, May, 1994
Keynote Speaker, Thunderbird School Annual Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, June, 1994
Invited Speaker, Multiple Panels, Internet Society INET '94/JENC, Prague, Czech Republic, June, 1994
Invited Speaker, DISA Information Infrastructure Symposium, McLean, VA, June, 1994
Invited Speaker, IEEE National Information Infrastructure Symposium, McLean, VA, June, 1994
Invited Speaker, Defense Science Board, Arlington, VA, July, 1994
Invited Speaker, CSC Vanguard Conference, London, England, July, 1994
Keynote Speaker, Arizona State University Data Seminar, Phoenix, AZ, July, 1994
Invited Speaker, IFIP '94, Hamburg, Germany, August, 1994
Panel Moderator, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Conference, Telecommunications, Washington, DC, September, 1994
Keynote Speaker, Latin American Networks Conference, Santiago, Chile, September, 1994 (Via Satellite)
Keynote Speaker, COMNET, San Francisco, CA, September, 1994
Invited Speaker, TCA, San Diego, CA, October, 1994
Invited Speaker, Interchange '94, Washington, DC, October, 1994
Keynote Speaker, Networks and Distributed Systems, Crystal City, VA, October 1994
Keynote Speaker, Information Industries Association, New York, October, 1994
Keynote Speaker, E-Mail World, Boston, MA, November, 1994
Keynote speaker, Nobel Science Prize Ceremony, Stockholm, Sweden December 2002
Congressional Testimony, Senate Commerce, Science, Transportation Committee July 17, 2014, Senator J. Rockefeller, presiding. "Support for basic science research"
Approximately 1000 additional speaking engagements over the
period 1995 to 2006. I have stopped counting and recording after 2006.
Academic Honors
North American Rockwell Four-Year Scholarship, 1961.
Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, Ph.D., honoris causa, 1996
Capitol College, MD, Ph.D., honoris causa, Commencement speaker, 1997
University of the Balearic Islands, Ph.D., honoris causa, 1998
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Ph.D., honoris causa, 1998
Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, Ph.D., honoris causa, 1998
George Mason University, Ph.D., honoris causa, 2000
University of Rovira and Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, Ph.D., honoris causa, 2000
Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Ph. D., honoris causa, May 2001
University of Twente, Netherlands, Ph.D., honoris causa, November 2001
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Prof. honoris causa, Sept. 2004
Tschingua University, Beijing, China, honoris causa, 2004
Brooklyn Polytechnic, Ph.D, honoris causa, February 2005
Marymount University, Arlington, VA, honoris causa, May 2006
University of Pisa, Ph. D., honoris causa, June 2006
Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, Ph. D., honoris causa, April 2008
University of Zaragoza, Spain, Ph. D., honoris causa, May 2008
Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Spain, Ph.D., honoris causa, April 2009
Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, USA, Ph.D., honoris causa, May 2009
MGIMO (Moscow State University of International Relations), Ph.D., honoris causa, August 2010
Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, Ph. D., honoris causa, November 2011
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, Ph.D., honoris causa, September 2012
Yale University, New Haven, CT, Ph.D., honoris causa, May 2013
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, Ph. D. Honoris Causa, November 2013
Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, Ph.D., honoris causa, June 2015
St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK, Ph.D., honoris causa, June 2015
University of Reading, UK, Ph.D., honoris causa, July 2015
Pitt University, Pittsburgh, USA, Ph.D., honoris causa, May 2016
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Ph.D., honoris causa, June 2016
Ramon Llull University (La Salle), Barcelona, Spain, Ph.D., honoris causa, June 2016
Public Service
Member of the Board of Directors, Fairfax Resource Center for the
Hearing Impaired (1987 - 1991).
President, Camelot Community Club (1987-1990)
Languages: English, German
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Name: Vinton Gray Cerf
Birth: 23 June, 1943, New Haven, CT
Institution: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Award: For creating and sustaining development of Internet Protocols and continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of Internet technology
Subject: Internet Technology
Biography
Books
CV, Extensive/Publications
Defining Moment/Regret
Family
Founder
Harassment
Health
History of Discovery - Brief History of the Internet
History of Discovery - History of the Internet Answers to Questions
Hobbies
Humor/Quotations
Images
Maverick/Youth
Patents
Personality
Thought Process
Videos
Education: B.S. in Mathematics, Stanford University; M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, UCLA. Van Nuys High School, CA
Ph.D. Advisor: Gerald Estrin
Dissertation: Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation (1972)