VINTON CERF THE FATHER OF THE INTERNET Brittany Smith COMP 1631, Winter 2011

Cerf grew up in Los Angeles, California He excelled academically and showed a strong aptitude for math. Vinton Cerf’s Youth He had an unusual style of dress for a school kid; he word a jacket and tie to class most days. As a child, Cerf began to develop an interest in computers. While at Stanford he stated, "There was something amazingly enticing about programming. You created your own universe and you were master of it.”

Born June 23, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA Obtained B.Sc. in Mathematics from Stanford University Worked at IBM as a systems engineer supporting QUIKTRAN Attended UCLA and earned his Masters of Science in 1970 and Ph.D. in During his graduate student years at UCLA, Cerf worked in a networking group that connected the first two nodes of the ARPANet, the predecessor to the Internet. The Father of the Internet Student Life

Led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial service to be connected to the Internet. Played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related packet data and security technologies. Led a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use Vinton Cerf’s Achievements

Co-designer of the TCP/IP Internet network protocol. TCP/IP was developed to solve problems with earlier attempts at communication between computers undertaken by ARPANET TCP manages high level services like re-transmission of lost packets, and IP deals with packet addressing and transmission. Co-creator of TCP protocols Developer of the existing ARPANET Network Control Program (NCP) protocol Achievements Continued…

Allows computers using different operating systems to ‘talk’ to one another across the network with equal status. The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. ARPANET packet switches: heavily instrumented in software allowed additional programs to be installed remotely from BBN for targeted data sampling. The IMPs could trigger collection of data The APRANET…

The early ARPANET ran on the Network Control Program (NCP), implementing the host-to- host connectivity and switching layers of the protocol stack Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the first description of the now widely used TCP protocols, in respond to NCP’s rapid growth. The ARPANET continued…

Within a few years of the creations of the ARPANET, other computer networks were developed. All new networks were independent and self-controlled. Kahn and Cerf decided that there needed to be a “gateway” computer between each network to route packets and allow all networks to communicate uniformly. In 1973, they presented a paper outlining their ideas to the International Networking Group. They described a new protocol they called the transmission-control protocol which was to encode packets in “datagrams”. Gateway computers would only read the delivery information contained in the datagrams and deliver the contents to host computers. Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf

Host computers would only open the envelope and read the actual contents of the packet. TCP allowed networks to be joined into a network of networks, or what we now call the Internet. Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf Cerf continued to refine TCP. Cerf and his colleagues made a major refinement in They split TCP into two parts. They took the part of TCP that is responsible for routing packages and formed a separate protocol called the Internet Protocol (IP). TCP would remain responsible for dividing messages into datagrams, reassembling messages, detecting errors, putting packets in the right order, and resending lost packets. The new protocol was called TCP/IP. TCP/IP went on to become the standard for all Internet communication.

: Assistant Professor at Stanford University : Vice President of MCI Digital Information Services Played a major role in sponsoring the development of Internet- related data packet technologies during his stint with the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) 1994: Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy 1999: Board Member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 2005: Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google Cerf’s Career Timeline

Cerf’s Awards and Honorary Degrees Awards Honorary Degrees Marconi Fellowship Charles Stark Draper Award of the National Academy of Engineering The Prince of Asturias Award for Science and Technology The NEC Computer and Communications Prize The Kilby Award The Andrew Saks Engineering Award The J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration Presidential Medal of Freedom National Medal of Technology Etc. University of the Balearic Islands Capitol College Marymount University University of Twente Polytechnic University of Madrid Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Brooklyn Polytechnic George Mason University University of Pisa Etc.

Continues to perform research and contribute to the development of the Internet through work with the communications company MCI and the Internet management organization ICANN President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), a not-for-profit organization which does research in the public interest on strategic development of network-based information technologies Vice President and chief Internet evangelist for Google Public face for Google in the Internet world Responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced Internet-based products and services Cerf Today

His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife Sigrid were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett. In December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People.” “Sleep is a waste of time” - Cerf Vinton Cerf is known to have created the term ‘Internet’ VINTON CERF FACTS

The Internet Today Global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. Carries a vast range of information resources and services Inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) Infrastructure to support electronic mail. In 2008, it was stated that the estimated IPv4 addresses, each of which is a series of 32 binary digits, will run out in 2010.

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