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The Internet: 21st Century Tidal Wave
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Vinton Cerf
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Wednesday,
April 18, 6:00 p.m.
NASA Ames
Main Auditorium (Building 201),
Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, CA, USA
Reception
to follow in
Museum's Visible Storage Exhibit Area (Building 126)
ABSTRACT
OF TALK
Vint Cerf will place the Internet in perspective
for the 21st Century, discussing its current scale
and growth rates, the new applications it is being
adapted to support, the appearance of Internet-enabled
appliances, and the need for a new version of Internet
Protocol to allow the Net to grow well beyond its
current size. In addition, Cerf will outline the
Interplanetary Internet effort now underway at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
BACKGROUND OF SPEAKER
Senior
vice-president of Internet architecture and technology at MCI
WorldCom, Vint Cerf is considered one of the most celebrated
technical architects of the last century. He helped develop TCP/IP,
a pioneering computer networking protocol. Cerf is MCI World COM's
chief Internet strategist and works to advance Internet frameworks.
In the 1980's, he led the engineering team that launched MCI E-mail,
the first commercial Internet e-mail service. Cerf is currently
working with engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab to develop a
wireless communications network -- the Interplanetary Net (IPN) --
that would move the Internet into outer space. In 1992, Cerf founded
the Internet Society and served as its president for three years and
chairman of the board until 1999. He also serves as technical
advisor to the television show, "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final
Conflict." Cerf received his BA in math from Stanford in 1965 and
his MS and PhD degrees from UCLA. He is a recipient of the US
National Medal of Technology and a Fellow of Computer History Museum.
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