Vinton Cerf has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
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Vinton Cerf attended Van Nuys High School with Jon Postel and Steve Crocker.
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Vinton Cerf received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Stanford University.
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Vinton Cerf studied under Professor Gerald Estrin and worked in Professor Leonard Kleinrock's data packet networking group that connected the first two nodes of the ARPANet, the first node on the Internet, and "contributed to a host-to-host protocol" for the ARPANet.
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Vinton Cerf is active in a number of global humanitarian organizations.
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Vinton Cerf is known for his sartorial style, typically appearing in a three-piece suit—a rarity in an industry known for its casual dress norms.
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Vinton Cerf rejoined MCI during 1994 and served as Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy.
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Since 2010, Vinton Cerf has served as a Commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, a UN body which aims to make broadband internet technologies more widely available.
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Vinton Cerf joined the board in 1999, and served until November 2007.
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Vinton Cerf was chairman from November 2000 to his departure from the Board.
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Vinton Cerf was a member of Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov's IT Advisory Council .
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Vinton Cerf is a member of the advisory board of Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy.
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Vinton Cerf currently serves on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government.
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Vinton Cerf serves on the advisory council of CRDF Global and was on the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats International Advisory Board.
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Vinton Cerf was elected as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery in May 2012 and joined the Council on CyberSecurity's Board of Advisors in August 2013.
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From 2011 to 2016, Vinton Cerf was chairman of the board of trustees of ARIN, the Regional Internet Registry of IP addresses for United States, Canada, and part of the Caribbean.
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Vinton Cerf is on the board of advisors to The Liquid Information Company Ltd of the UK, which works to make the web more usefully interactive and which has produced the Mac OS X utility called 'Liquid'.
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Vint Vinton Cerf is a member of the CuriosityStream Advisory Board.
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In 2008 Cerf was a major contender to be designated the first U S Chief Technology Officer by President Barack Obama.
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Vinton Cerf is the co-chair of Campus Party Silicon Valley, the US edition of one of the largest technology festivals in the world, along with Al Gore and Tim Berners-Lee.
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From 2009 to 2011, Vinton Cerf was an elected member of the Governing Board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel .
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In 2015 Vinton Cerf co-founded, and is currently chairman of, People-Centered Internet .
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Vinton Cerf served until May 2018 when his six-year term expired.
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Vinton Cerf is among the 15 members of governing council of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.
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Since at least 2015, Vinton Cerf has been raising concerns about the wide-ranging risks of digital obsolescence, the potential of losing much historic information about our time – a digital "dark age" or "black hole" – given the ubiquitous digital storage of text, data, images, music and more.
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Vinton Cerf announced the news via a tweet in which he criticized President Donald Trump for the way he was handling the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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Vinton Cerf writes under the column name "CERF'S UP", and Vinton Cerf's car has a vanity plate "CERFSUP".
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