Artifact Details

Title

Cerf, Vint (Vinton) oral history

Catalog Number

102658186

Type

Document

Description

Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vinton, "Vint" Cerf is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. During his tenure 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. He then became Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982 and 1986 he served as Vice President of MCI. 1994 - 2005, Cerf served as Senior Vice President at MCI. He joined the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board in 1999, and served through 2007. Cerf is currently Google's chief Internet promoter. This interview took place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on November 7, 2007. Vint Cerf is interviewed by Don Nielson, a retired Vice President of SRI International and a colleague of Vint's from the early days of internetworking development.

Date

2007-11-07

Contributor

Cerf, Vinton G., Interviewee
Nielson, Donald, Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

41 p.

Category

Transcription

Subject

Cerf, Vint; DARPA; Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); TCP/IP; Internet; MCI; MCI Mail; Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI); ARPANET; Kahn, Robert; Estrin, Gerald; Kleinrock, Leonard; Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); Cerf, Vinton G.

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Lot Number

X4308.2008