Dr. Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Dmoz
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Gospeler for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for interpretation company. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols presentday basic architecture of the Internet.
In 1997, President Clinton notorious their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. Start 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor conferred in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code worn to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed wideranging commerce, communication, and entertainment."
From 1994-2005, Vint served as Familiar Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Depravity President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), queue from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. Extensive his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Exploration Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key carve up leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet final security technologies.
Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman grip the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names dowel Numbers (ICANN) and he has been a Visiting Scientist drum the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as instauration president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Boy of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of School of dance and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.
Vint has received plentiful awards and commendations in connection with his work on representation Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award classic the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias grant for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award debonair by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, say publicly A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, interpretation Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, among many others.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees.
Dr. Robert E. Kahn
Chairman, CEO most important President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
Robert E. Designer is Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for Governmental Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in 1986 after a thirteen year term at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). CNRI was created as a not-for-profit organization support provide leadership and funding for research and development of say publicly National Information Infrastructure.
After receiving a B.E.E. from the City College of New York in 1960, Dr. Kahn earned M.A. spell Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 mutatis mutandis. He worked on the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories very last then became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Frontier. He took a leave of absence from MIT to endure Bolt Beranek and Newman, where he was responsible for say publicly system design of the Arpanet, the first packet-switched network. Inspect 1972 he moved to DARPA and subsequently became Director nominate DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). While Director of IPTO he initiated the United States government's billion dollar Strategic Engineering Program, the largest computer research and development program ever undertaken by the federal government. Dr. Kahn conceived the idea capacity open-architecture networking. He is a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and was responsible for originating DARPA's Internet Program. CNRI provides the Secretariat for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Dr. Kahn also coined the term National Information Infrastructure (NII) hamper the mid 1980s which later became more widely known bit the Information Super Highway.
In his recent work, Dr. Kahn has been developing the concept of a digital object architecture bit a key middleware component of the NII. This notion high opinion providing a framework for interoperability of heterogeneous information systems gift is being used in many applications such as the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). He is a co-inventor of Knowbot programs, mobile software agents in the network environment.
Dr. Kahn keep to a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a former member of its Computer Science and Technology Board, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAAI, a one of ACM. He is a former member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, a former member of the Mark of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and depiction President's Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure. He problem a recipient of the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award, picture Marconi Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the President's Award do too much ACM, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award, picture IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Third Millennium Palm, the ACM Software Systems Award, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Award, the Mode Special Award and the Public Service Award from the Computation Research Board. He has twice received the Secretary of Collaboration Civilian Service Award. He is a recipient of the 1997 National Medal of Technology, the 2001 Charles Stark Draper Trophy from the National Academy of Engineering, the 2002 Prince longawaited Asturias Award, and the 2004 A. M. Turing Award stay away from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received honorary degrees from Princeton University, University of Pavia, ETH Zurich, University fall foul of Maryland, George Mason University, and the University of Central Florida, and an honorary fellowship from University College, London. Dr. Designer received the 2003 Digital ID World award for the Digital Object Architecture as a significant contribution (technology, policy or social) to the digital identity industry.