Vinton G. Cerf - Internet Privacy and Security

November 2, 2011
Washington, D.C.

VINTON G. CERF, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1995, is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google Inc. Previously, he served at MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and as a member of the Stanford University faculty. Since 2000, Cerf has served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He co-invented the architecture and basic protocols of the Internet. His awards include the U.S. National Medal of Technology and the Japan Prize, among others.