He Did Alot More Than Al Gore!Vinton G. "Vint" Cerf is vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, and chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He and Robert E. Kahn designed the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet while working at the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is regarded as one of the "fathers of the Internet."
As chief Internet evangelist for Google, Cerf identifies new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google. He is also an ambassador for Google in the Internet world.
Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI, and MCI's senior vice president of Architecture and Technology. Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.
From 1976 to 1982, Cerf worked at the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), leading the development of Internet and Internet-related packet data and security technologies.
In December 1997, President Bill Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols (this award is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science"). In November 2005, President George W. Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens.
Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, generic and country code domain name system management, and root server system management functions. These services were originally performed under U.S. government contract by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other entities. ICANN now performs the IANA function.
From 1992 to 1995, Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society. And he is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol.
Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from UCLA. He has received a string of awards, commendations and honors about a mile long. He also holds a large number of honorary university degrees.
Cerf holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.
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. | 
