SIGCOMM Award Winner
Vinton G. Cerf
Senior Vice President for Internet Architecture and Technology, MCI WorldCom

Vinton G. Cerf is senior vice president of Internet Architecture and
Technology for MCI WorldCom. Cerf's team of architects and engineers design
advanced Internet frameworks for delivering a combination of data, information,
voice and video services for business and consumer use.
Widely known as
a "Father of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol,
the computer language that gave birth to the Internet and which is commonly
used today. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National
Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding
and developing the Internet.
Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was
vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI).
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.
During his tenure from 1976-1982 with
the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related
data packet and security technologies.
Cerf served as founding president
of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and is currently serving as its
chairman of the Board. Cerf is a member of the U.S. Presidential Information
Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) and the Advisory Committee for Telecommunications
(ACT) in Ireland. He also sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment
for Excellence in Education, Gallaudet University, Interprophet and Hybrithms
Corporations. Cerf is a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the National Academy of Engineering.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous
awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet.
These include the Marconi Fellowship, the Alexander Graham Bell Award
presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC
Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International
Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE
Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM
Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry
Legend Award, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award and the Yankee
Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award.
In December, 1994,
People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing
People."
In addition to his work on behalf of MCI and the Internet, Cerf
serves as technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth:
Final Conflict," the number one television show in first-run syndication.
He also made a special guest appearance in May 1998. Cerf also holds an
appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.
Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University
and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA.
He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology, Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University
of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College and Gettysburg College.
His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science
fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two
sons, David and Bennett.
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