Vinton G. CERF

Vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at ICANN, the Internet Society, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A former Stanford Professor and former member of the US National Science Board, he is also the past President of the Association for Computing Machinery and serves in advisory capacities at NIST, DOE, NSF, and NRO. He has a B.S. in mathematics from Stanford and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from UCLA. He is a member of both the US National Academies of Science and Engineering, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and the Worshipful Company of Stationers. He has received numerous awards, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Marconi Prize and Marconi Lifetime Achievement Award, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Legion d’Honneur, the VinFutures Grand Prize and the Franklin Medal. He is a Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering and holds 29 honorary degrees. Since 1998, Vint Cerf has been a distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on the design and implementation of a Solar System Internet. New protocols have been designed specifically for space networking, called the Bundle Protocol Suite. Cerf is also a Board member of the Internet Society’s Interplanetary Chapter. He works with the Architecture and Policy working group to anticipate challenges as a multistakeholder Solar System Internet serves future missions.