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Vint Cerf

Also Known As Vinton Gray Cerf
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Vinton Gray Cerf is an American Internet pioneer recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet, a title he shares with Robert Kahn, with whom he co-designed the TCP/IP protocol suite while at Stanford in the early 1970s. Cerf and Kahn shared the 2004 Turing Award for their pioneering work on internetworking, including the Internet's basic communications protocols. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1943 1
Birth Date
1943-06-23 2
Nationality
American 1
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Harold Pender Award 2
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Charles Stark Draper Prize 2
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Officer of the Legion of Honour 2
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honorary doctor of Luleå University of Technology 2
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IEEE Fellow 2
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National Inventors Hall of Fame 2
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Foreign Member of the Royal Society 2
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Presidential Medal of Freedom 2
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Turing Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 2
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Catalonia International Prize 2
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EFF Award 2
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Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2
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honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations 2
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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2
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Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius 2
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IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award 2
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honorary doctor of the Rovira i Virgili University 2
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Paul Evan Peters Award 2
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Marconi Prize 2
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honorary doctorate of the University of the Balearic Islands 2
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OII Lifetime Achievement Award 2
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Internet Hall of Fame 2
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honorary doctor of ETH Zürich 2
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IEEE Medal of Honor 2
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Benjamin Franklin Medal 2
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Japan Prize 2
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National Medal of Technology and Innovation 2
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ACM Software System Award 2
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Associated With

Computer Networking, Fields

Vint Cerf co-designed the TCP/IP protocols with Robert Kahn, work recognized by the ACM Turing Award citation for pioneering internetworking, foundational to computer networking as a field.

Source Wikipedia: Vint Cerf
The Internet, Systems

Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn co-designed TCP/IP, the Internet's basic communications protocols, work recognized by their joint ACM Turing Award citation for pioneering internetworking; both are commonly called fathers of the Internet.

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In Field

Invented

TCP/IP, Systems

Co-designed with Robert Kahn, with whom Cerf shares the fathers of the Internet title and the 2004 Turing Award.

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1. Wikipedia: Vint Cerf
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  • Introduction and Awards sections
    Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of 'the fathers of the Internet', sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn.
  • Introduction
    Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer
  • Invented: TCP/IP, Life and Career section
    Cerf worked as assistant professor at Stanford University from 1972 to 1976 where he conducted research on packet network interconnection protocols and co-designed the DoD TCP/IP protocol suite with Kahn.
  • Associated With: Computer Networking
  • Associated With: The Internet
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2. Wikidata: Vint Cerf
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