Vint Cerf

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, and widely known as a "Father of the Internet.”Cerf, with Robert Kahn, is a co-designer of TCP/IP protocols and the basic architecture of the internet -- work that prompted President Bill Clinton in 1997 to award them with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. The Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to them both in 2005.Before joining Google in 2005, Cerf was Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, vice president of MCI, and from 1976-1982, worked with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.

A member of numerous boards and a visiting scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998, was a founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC), and is a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.

His awards include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.