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Cerf, Vinton Gray(The Father of the Internet)
1943 - Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut on the 23rd of June.
1965 - He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford.
1970 - He received Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees.
1972 - He continued working on computer networks when he became a professor at Stanford University.
1976 - He was asked to move to the United States Department of home security's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to run the research and development program in this area.
- He played a key role in leading the development of the TCP/IP protocols and the Internet.
1982-1986 - He served as vice president of MCI Digital Information Services, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.Cerf then rejoined Kahn at the latter's Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
1999 - Cerf joined the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
2002 - Cerf is a member of the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov's IT Advisory Council, assigned with a Presidential Decree on the 8th of March.
2005 - On the 8th of September, Google Inc. announced that it hired Cerf as "Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist.
1965 - He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford.
1970 - He received Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees.
1972 - He continued working on computer networks when he became a professor at Stanford University.
1976 - He was asked to move to the United States Department of home security's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to run the research and development program in this area.
- He played a key role in leading the development of the TCP/IP protocols and the Internet.
1982-1986 - He served as vice president of MCI Digital Information Services, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.Cerf then rejoined Kahn at the latter's Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
1999 - Cerf joined the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
2002 - Cerf is a member of the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov's IT Advisory Council, assigned with a Presidential Decree on the 8th of March.
2005 - On the 8th of September, Google Inc. announced that it hired Cerf as "Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist.
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