Vint Cerf

About Vint Cerf

Telecommunications pioneer who is widely regarded as one of the"fathers of the internet" alongside Donald Davies and Bob Kahn. He was elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery in May 2012, and he has won a number of honors, including the National Medal of Technology and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Vinton Gray Cerf is an American Internet pioneer and recognized as one of the "Fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP / IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards including the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Award, and a membership of the National Academy of Engineering.

Thesis	Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation (1972)
Notable awards	ACM Fellow (1994), 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), ForMemRS (2016)
Alma mater	Stanford University, UCLA
Known for	TCP/IP, Internet Society
Citizenship	American
Born	Vinton Gray Cerf, June 23, 1943, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Institutions	IBM, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, UCLA, Stanford University, DARPA, MCI, CNRI, Google
Fields	Telecommunications

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Trivia

While working for MCI Communications, Vint Cerf helped to develop the first-ever commercial e-mail system connected to the internet, MCI Mail.

Vint Cerf before fame

He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked at IBM after graduating with a B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University. He obtained his PhD from UCLA in 1972 and began working for DARPA in 1976.

Achievement of Vint Cerf

While working with MCI Communications, he contributed to the development of MCI Mail, the first commercial e-mail system connected to the internet.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Vint Cerf family life

He is married to Sigrid and they have two children, David and Bennett.

Associations of Vint Cerf

In 2013, President Barack Obama appointed him to the National Science Board.

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