Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf ForMemRS (/sɜːrf/; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn.
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| Born | Vinton Gray Cerf June 23, 1943 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BS) University of California, Los Angeles (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | TCP/IP Internet Society |
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| Fields | Telecommunications |
| Institutions | IBM, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, UCLA, Stanford University, DARPA, MCI, CNRI, Google |
| Thesis | Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gerald Estrin |
| Website | research |
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He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
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