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Vint Cerf

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The Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet protocol suite are the notable works most closely associated with Vint Cerf, a computer scientist, engineer, university teacher, and technology evangelist who holds United States citizenship.

Cerf was born on June 23, 1943, in New Haven. He attended Van Nuys High School and went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles and then at Stanford University. Those educational steps took him into the technical work that produced the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet protocol suite, the two contributions the facts record as central to his career. His occupational roles have spanned computer science, engineering, university teaching, and technology evangelism, reflecting a range of professional activity across both technical and communicative work.

That body of work has brought Cerf recognition from several directions. He has received the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and the IEEE Medal of Honor — four distinct honors from academic, governmental, and professional engineering bodies. The Library of Congress catalogs him under the authorized label "Cerf, Vinton G., 1943-," a concrete marker of his documented place in the record of computing history.

Quotes by Vint Cerf

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
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There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
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We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
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What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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