October 27, 20118 a.m. - 9 a.m.
Location: Mirror Room, 5th Floor
Plenary Speaker | Thursday, October 27
Vinton G. Cerf, Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. Cerf served as a Senior Vice President of MCI from 1994 to 2005, as Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives from 1986 to 1994, as Vice President of MCI from 1982 to 1986, and as Principal Scientist in the Information Processing Techniques Office of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1976 to 1982. Cerf was a member of the Stanford University faculty from 1972 to 1976.
Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He received the U.S. National Medal of Technology in 1997 and the 2004 ACM Alan M. Turing Award. In November 2005, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and, in April 2008, the Japan Prize.
Vint Cerf served as Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007 and was Founding President of the Internet Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, and the Computer History Museum and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is an honorary Freeman of the City of London and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Cerf holds a bachelor of science in mathematics from Stanford University and a master of science and a Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA. He is the recipient of over a dozen honorary degrees.