Vint Cerf
Biography
Early in his career, Cerf worked at the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) playing a key role in leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. 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.
Founding president of and, later, chairman of the board of the Internet Society, Cerf has also served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007, and as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery from 2012-2014
Since 2005, he has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, where he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services.
Founding president of and, later, chairman of the board of the Internet Society, Cerf has also served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007, and as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery from 2012-2014
Since 2005, he has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, where he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services.
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