Vint Cerf | |
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![]() Vinton Cerf in 2017 | |
Born | Vinton Gray Cerf June 23, 1943 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
Alma mater | Stanford University (B.S.) UCLA (M.S. & Ph.D.) |
Known for | TCP/IP Internet Society |
Awards | IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1997) National Medal of Technology (1997) Marconi Prize (1998) Prince of Asturias Award (2002) Turing Award (2004) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005) Japan Prize (2008) Harold Pender Award (2010) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2013) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Telecommunications |
Institutions | IBM,[1] UCLA,[1] Stanford University,[1] DARPA,[1] MCI,[1][2] CNRI,[1] Google[3] |
Thesis | Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Gerald Estrin[4] |
Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf[1] (/ˈsɜːrf/; born June 23, 1943) is an American internet pioneer. He is thought of as one of[5] "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American engineer Bob Kahn.[6][7]
In March 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, Cerf had tested positive for COVID-19.[8]