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According to Wikipedia, Vinton Gray Cerf is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He 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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Delay-tolerant networking: an approach to interplanetary Internet (2003) (1452)
A brief history of the internet (1999) (1110)
Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture (2007) (1015)
A protocol for packet network intercommunication (1974) (667)
The past and future history of the Internet (1997) (277)
Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program (1974) (186)
Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond (1995) (137)
Issues in packet-network interconnection (1978) (102)
Internet Predictions (2010) (85)
On digital diplomacy (2020) (80)
Interplanetary internet (ipn): architectural definition (2001) (77)
BufferBloat: What’s Wrong with the Internet? (2011) (69)
The DoD Internet Architecture Model (1983) (69)
Who Will Pay for Public Access to Research Data? (2013) (67)
What Is the Internet (and What Makes it Work) (1999) (63)
ASCII format for network interchange (1969) (63)
IAB recommendations for the development of Internet network management standards (1988) (61)
The Interplanetary Internet: a communications infrastructure for Mars exploration. (2003) (59)
Internet (The History) (2005) (57)
Multiprocessors, semaphores, and a graph model of computation (1972) (55)
A lower bound on the average shortest path length in regular graphs (1974) (48)
Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (48)
Social and ethical behavior in the internet of things (2017) (47)
Delay-Tolerant Network Architecture: The Evolving Interplanetary Internet (2002) (40)
The Internet is for Everyone (2002) (39)
Towards the Future Internet Architecture (1991) (37)
Report of the second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group (1989) (36)
Unconventional computing (2014) (35)
Invention (2015) (34)
The Evolution of the Internet as a Global Information System (1997) (33)
Proposal for an international end to end protocol (1976) (32)
How the Internet came to be (2001) (32)
Bufferbloat and Other Internet Challenges (2014) (30)
Oscillation (2018) (29)
Tutorial : a practical view of computer communications protocols (1978) (28)
Taking the Internet to the Next Physical Level (2016) (27)
Information infrastructure (1987) (26)
A Guide to the Tcp/Ip Protocol Suite (1998) (26)
Security Implications of Applying the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act to Voice over IP (2006) (26)
Beyond the post-PC Internet (2001) (26)
Spam, spim, and spit (2005) (26)
Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols (1988) (25)
Who Rules the Net?: Internet Governance and Jurisdiction (2003) (24)
National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technologies for Scientific Research (1993) (22)
Access Control and the Internet of Things (2015) (21)
Space for Internet and Internet for space (2014) (21)
IAB recommended policy on distributing internet identifier assignment and IAB recommended policy change to internet "connected" status (1990) (21)
PARRY encounters the DOCTOR (1973) (20)
The Internet Activities Board (1989) (20)
THE DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT VOLUME 1: The World of Knowbots (DRAFT) AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE FOR A DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEM AND A PLAN FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT (2001) (20)
Internet Governance Is Our Shared Responsibility (2013) (19)
Military Requirements for Packet-Switched Networks and Their Implications for Protocol Standardization (1983) (19)
A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (1994) (19)
A comprehensive self-driving car test (2018) (19)
Guidelines for Internet Measurement Activities (1991) (18)
Auditory Measures for the Next Billion Users. (2020) (18)
Why is accessibility so hard? (2012) (18)
The day the Internet age began (2009) (18)
Augmented Intelligence (2013) (18)
Pre-emption (1981) (17)
The Past and Future History (1997) (17)
An Interplanetary Internet (2008) (16)
Requirements for the Internet (2003) (15)
Information and misinformation on the internet (2016) (15)
Delay Tolerant Networking (2002) (15)
A Scientific Supercourse (2006) (15)
Avoiding "Bit Rot": Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information [Point of View] (2011) (15)
Prospects for the internet of things (2015) (14)
Where is the science in computer science? (2012) (14)
Safety in Cyberspace (2011) (14)
The peace of westphalia (2018) (14)
IoT Safety and Security as Shared Responsibility (2016) (14)
Computer science revisited (2012) (13)
Computer science in the curriculum (2016) (13)
Corporate Networks: The Strategic Use of Telecommunications (1993) (12)
On the evolution of Internet technologies (2004) (12)
First, Do No Harm (2011) (12)
An information avalanche (2007) (12)
Net Neutrality Compendium: Human Rights, Free Competition, and the Future of the Internet (2015) (12)
Assessment of ARPANET protocols (1974) (11)
When they're everywhere (1997) (11)
A partial census of trivalent generalized Moore networks (1975) (10)
The Data Reconfiguration Service—an experiment in adaptable, process/process communication (1971) (10)
The open Internet: what it is, and why it matters (2009) (10)
Enrollments explode! but diversity students are leaving… (2016) (10)
Revisiting the tragedy of the commons (2013) (9)
The future of the internet (1997) (9)
Trust and the Internet (2010) (9)
Loon SDN: Applicability to NASA's next-generation space communications architecture (2018) (9)
Gateways for the Internet of Things: An old problem revisited (2013) (9)
Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network (1990) (8)
Multilayer and Multimetric Quality Control: The Supercourse (2010) (8)
Topological Design Considerations in Computer Communication Networks (1975) (8)
the communication (1998) (8)
Measurement of Recursive Programs (1971) (8)
Explaining the role of GOSIP (1990) (8)
The electronic mailbox: a new communication tool for the hearing impaired. (1978) (8)
Can liberty survive the digital age? (2017) (8)
The role of archives in digital preservation (2017) (7)
Defining Tolerance: Impacts of Delay and Disruption when Managing Challenged Networks (2011) (7)
SPECIFICATION OF INTERNET TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM TCP (Version 2) (1977) (7)
A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service (1993) (7)
What if it's us? (2014) (7)
Sherry Turkle: Alone Together (2011) (7)
30 Years of RFCs (1999) (7)
Packet Satellite Technology Reference Sources (1982) (6)
Innovation and the Internet (2008) (6)
Research Pays Off (1996) (6)
Successful strategies for IPv6 rollouts. (2011) (6)
DARPA ACTIVITIES IN PACKET NETWORK INTERCONNECTION (1979) (6)
Running AMOOC (2013) (6)
An Experimental Service for Adaptable Data Reconfiguration (1972) (6)
Defense against the Dark Arts (2012) (5)
Emergent Properties, Human Rights, and the Internet (2012) (5)
Internet of Things. Information Processing in an Increasingly Connected World (2018) (5)
Act one - the poems (1989) (5)
Potpourri (2012) (5)
What Hath We Wrought? (2017) (5)
I remember IANA (1998) (5)
Growing the ACM family (2013) (5)
Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists (2002) (4)
AI is not an excuse! (2019) (4)
A brittle and fragile future (2017) (4)
Successful Strategies for IPv6 Rollouts. Really. (2011) (4)
Assessing the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and Future Possibilities (2007) (4)
Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide with Cdrom (1999) (4)
What's a robot? (2013) (4)
Economics of the Internet (2003) (4)
Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2013) (4)
Computer science education---revisited (2013) (4)
Responsible programming (2014) (4)
On durability (2020) (4)
Requiem for the ARPANET (1990) (4)
Natural Disasters and Electric Infrastructure (2011) (3)
Status report on proposed Data Reconfiguration Service (1971) (3)
On national information infrastructure : Civic networking (1994) (3)
Host Address Availability Recommendations (2016) (3)
A long way to have come and still to go (2014) (3)
A half-century makes a difference (2010) (3)
"It's the Net, Stupid" (2012) (3)
The Internet at Risk (2013) (3)
An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols (1995) (3)
Cognitive implants (2014) (3)
Apps and the web (2016) (3)
Knocking Down Strawmen (2014) (3)
A revolution in India (2013) (3)
Preface to This Special Issue on Computer Telephony (1996) (3)
The Future of the Internet: Implications for Managers an Interview with Vinton G. Cerf (2011) (3)
Secure Identities (2011) (3)
Forty Years Ago (2014) (3)
Dependencies (2015) (3)
Augmented reality (2014) (3)
Information infrastructure (1987) (3)
Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metophors for Inventing the Net (1996) (3)
The internet governance ecosystem (2014) (3)
Network and infrastructure user requirements for transatlantic research collaboration: Brussels, July 16-18, and Washington July 24-25, 1990 (1991) (3)
The Data Reconfiguration Service: An Experiment in Adaptable, Process (1971) (2)
One is glad to be of service (2001) (2)
Shields up! (2018) (2)
Recent research in artificial intelligence, heuristic programming, and network protocols. (1974) (2)
Abstraction, Federation, and Scalability (2013) (2)
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning (2017) (2)
Data transfer protocols (1971) (2)
The upper layers of the internet (2018) (2)
NCP statistics (1972) (2)
Turing test 2 (2018) (2)
Cargo Cults and Information Technology Development (2013) (2)
A Perspective from the Private Sector: Ensuring that Forum Follows Function (2014) (2)
Making Innovation Happen: 2016 IRI Medal Address (2016) (2)
Loose Couplings (2013) (2)
'But officer, I was only programming at 100 lines per hour!' (2013) (2)
Open Source, Smart Grid, and Mobile Apps (2011) (2)
Hazards of the information superhighway (2019) (2)
Well known socket numbers (1972) (2)
APIs, standards, and enabling infrastructure (2019) (2)
A Revised View of the IoT Ecosystem (2017) (2)
Formation of Network Measurement Group (NMG) (1972) (2)
'As we may think' (2015) (2)
The Right to Connect and Internet Censorship (2012) (2)
Some possible government roles in information infrastructure (1995) (2)
Does innovation create or destroy jobs? (2014) (2)
2012 Isn't the End of the World (2010) (2)
ARPANET Management Study (1974) (2)
Information technology: A digital genius at play (2017) (2)
2021 Internet Perspectives (2021) (2)
Digital Government and the Internet (2002) (2)
The Unfinished Work of the Internet (2019) (2)
Internet and Jurisdiction (2018) (2)
A perspective on ubiquitous computing (1992) (2)
On Risk (2016) (2)
Ubiquity symposium: The science in computer science: computer science revisited (2012) (2)
Self-authenticating identifiers (2018) (2)
The man behind the machine. (1991) (2)
Things and the Net (2012) (2)
Invitation to the Second Symposium on Problems in the Optimization of Data Communications Systems (1971) (1)
Cascade failure (2015) (1)
Multisensory adventures (2020) (1)
Bringing New Tools to the White House Rethinking the President ’ s Daily Intelligence Brief (2014) (1)
ACM and the Professional Programmer (2014) (1)
On the road in Latin America (2015) (1)
In the belly of the net (1999) (1)
The last 40, the next 40: The Internet's arc (2019) (1)
Libraries considered hazardous (2019) (1)
Polyglot! (2019) (1)
The sound of programming (2018) (1)
Looking beyond the millenium (1997) (1)
Traceability (2018) (1)
Measuring Connectivity: A Call to Measure Internet Development with Open, Timely, and Relevant Data (2015) (1)
Internet, Technology, and the Future: An Interview with Vint Cerf (2019) (1)
Proceedings of the 1975 ACM SIGCOMM/SIGOPS workshop on Interprocess communications (1975) (1)
Heidelberg Laureate Forum II (2014) (1)
Back to the future, part II (2019) (1)
The Interplanetary Internet: The Next Frontier in Mobility (2001) (1)
The internet in the 21st century (2018) (1)
The IANA transition (2016) (1)
The work of IFIP working group 6.1 (1975) (1)
On heterogeneous computing (2021) (1)
Internet governance and regulations in Latin America (2019) (1)
Mail transition plan (1980) (1)
The Internet of Things and Sensors and Actuators (2012) (1)
The human touch (2015) (1)
What does a static, sustainable economy look like? (2021) (1)
Ownership vs. stewardship (2019) (1)
Advancing the ACM agenda (2015) (1)
Our Fragile Power Grid (2016) (1)
ARPA Internetwork Protocols Project Status Report (1975) (1)
Data Reconfiguration Service: An implementation specification (1971) (1)
Zero Text Length EOF Message (1969) (1)
Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) (1991) (1)
Comments on NCP/TCP mail service transition strategy (1980) (1)
Freedom and the social contract (2013) (1)
Host-host control message formats (1969) (1)
Unfinished Business (2014) (1)
How do I rely on thee, smartphone? (2022) (1)
On (computing) artifacts (2015) (1)
A View from the 21th Century (1994) (1)
Sometimes it takes some time! (2014) (1)
Network meeting (1969) (1)
ACM and the professional programmer (2014) (1)
An interview with U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith (2015) (1)
The Internet of Everyone (2014) (1)
Current flow-control scheme for IMPSYS (1973) (1)
Ethics and the Internet (1991) (1)
'We're going backward!' (2016) (1)
Memory with a twist (2015) (1)
A celebration of accomplishments (2015) (1)
The future of text redux (2021) (1)
Information, Data, Security in a Networked Future (2012) (1)
Digital Dark Age (2016) (1)
SCCU/MCCU Characteristics for Autodin 2 (1976) (1)
Star struck in Lindau (2016) (1)
Event Information - Proceedings - Part 01: Welcome and Introductions (November 29, 2007) (2013) (0)
Networking in the nineties (panel session) (1990) (0)
Video Compression the Corner Office View (2010) (0)
Frontier Visionary Interview - Hindsight, Insight and Foresight (2008) (0)
Scaffolding as Catalyst (2023) (0)
"Ethics" (2016) (0)
Challenge for Society of Scale and Speed of Technological Change (2020) (0)
International dialogue (1975) (0)
Archive (2009) (0)
When email isn't private (2016) (0)
Social, Technical and Economic Consequences of the Internet Evolution (2007) (0)
Taking Internet's temperature: prescriptions for the 21st century (2004) (0)
Network Working Group an Assessment of Arpanet Protocols (2009) (0)
Desirable Properties of Internet Identifiers (2017) (0)
Belated Network Meeting Report (1970) (0)
In memoriam: Paul Baran (2011) (0)
In praise of under-specification? (2017) (0)
Electronic Mail and the Paper Society (Panel) (1986) (0)
Open access to academic research (2017) (0)
Interplanetary internet: an architectural framework for space internetworking (2003) (0)
A view of verification technology (1981) (0)
National information infrastrucwe (NII) at Supercomputing '93 (1993) (0)
Unintended consequences (2018) (0)
There is nothing new under the sun (2015) (0)
Internet and the Other IP (2013) (0)
Formalisms for interprocess communication (1975) (0)
I Remember IANA (Tribute, Jonathan B. Postel 1943-1998). (1998) (0)
Information Sharing in the 21st Century (2008) (0)
On the internet of medical things (2020) (0)
Creation of a Testbed for Innovative Educational TV Experiments. Final Report. (1975) (0)
Keynote: Internet Evolution (2008) (0)
Computer Networks: Past and Future (1991) (0)
Milestones for Computing Future (2015) (0)
Message Matching-based Artificial Bee Colony based Behaviour Detection in Delay Tolerant Networks (2017) (0)
Musings on the Internet. (2002) (0)
I can remember IANA (1998) (0)
Mathematical methods and algorithms of business informatics (2016) (0)
A hands-free ride (2019) (0)
Preserving the internet (2022) (0)
DARPA interdomain addressing (panel session, title only) (1985) (0)
A genetic theory of the Silicon Valley phenomenon (2017) (0)
2nd Joint European Networking Conference (1991) (0)
Back to the future (2019) (0)
Practical Solutions: Basic and Applied Research, Science, Engineering, and Design (2016) (0)
A Few Use Cases (2019) (0)
ACM president's salary increased by 300%! (2013) (0)
In debt to the NSF (2019) (0)
Internet Governance and the Internet Governance Forum Redux (2015) (0)
"What We Do Now, Kemosabe?" (2021) (0)
REPRINT---FROM CACM APRIL 2016Enrollments explode! (2016) (0)
Software at scale (2013) (0)
Honoring our best (2013) (0)
The power of big ideas (2016) (0)
Frontier Journal High-tech Think Tank and Action Workbench (2007) (0)
ACM's 2016 general election (2015) (0)
ARPANET Management Study: New Application Areas (1974) (0)
The geo-internet and how we may use it (2008) (0)
Welcome to the ACM Turing Centenary Program (2012) (0)
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Oral history interview with Vinton G. Cerf (1990) (0)
Padcasting (2015) (0)
A Persistent Headache (2015) (0)
The Battle for Internet Openness (2011) (0)
Undo, redo, and regrets (2019) (0)
Censoring the net is not the answer, but… (2022) (0)
Lest We Forget (2015) (0)
The Data Reconfiguration Service - Compiler/Interpreter Implementation Notes (1971) (0)
Smartphones and Hearing Aids (2021) (0)
On QR Codes and Safety (2023) (0)
UCLA - Computer Science Graphics Overview (1971) (0)
Interplanetary Internet (IPN) : the next frontier in mobility (2001) (0)
Instrument Thyself! (2014) (0)
It came from outer space! (2021) (0)
The Third Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2015) (0)
Why Monitor Violent Websites? A Justification * (2012) (0)
1364788 leah Hoffman in search of Dependable Design (0)
The Electronic library : vision and implementation (1989) (0)
Virtual reality redux (2014) (0)
A people-centered economy (2018) (0)
Making It All Compute [My First Job] (2014) (0)
Broadband Transparency and the Measurement Lab (2011) (0)
Musings on the Internet, Part 2 (2004) (0)
Now for something entirely different (2017) (0)
My Prodigal Child's Next Steps (2005) (0)
On the Simulation of Everything (2017) (0)
The house elves of ACM (2014) (0)
Comments on the IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol changes (1975) (0)
The IRI Medal (2016) (0)
IMP-IMP and HOST-HOST Control Links (1969) (0)
The Fragmentation of the Internet (2016) (0)
Digital Democracy (2020) (0)
On truth and belief (2022) (0)
The Autonomous Vehicle and Its Temptations (2018) (0)
Grumpy old cells (2017) (0)
National information infrastructure (NII) at Supercomputing '93 (panel) (1993) (0)
Digital synergy (2022) (0)
On neural networks (2018) (0)
New Applications for ARPANET Developed Information Processing Technology. Volume 1. On the Automation of the Procurement Process: Present Status, Feasibility for Improvements, Proposed Next Steps, and Payoffs (1975) (0)
Stated Meeting-Cambridge (2011) (0)
Half-baked high-resolution referencing (2021) (0)
Internet Collisions (2016) (0)
Heidelberg laureate forum (2017) (0)
The Organic Internet (2012) (0)
Summary of This Book (2015) (0)
Systeme de communication radio internet (2001) (0)
A Conversation with Vinton Cerf (2016) (0)
Heidelberg anew (2016) (0)
The Data Reconfiguration Service (1971) (0)
Repairability redux (2020) (0)
Six education (2017) (0)
Deep Retraining and Innovation (2017) (0)
Celebrations! (2016) (0)
Keeping the internet open (2016) (0)
EIC Misha Rabinovich Talks with Dejan Milojicic and Vint Cerf (2014) (0)
The Problem of Exclusive Arrangements in Multiple Dwelling Units: Unlocking Broadband Growth in Indonesia and the Global South (2015) (0)
Celebrating excellence (2018) (0)
Adaptive Position based Reliable Routing Protocol (APBRRP) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2020) (0)
ACM on-line (1993) (0)
Information infrastructure (1987) (0)
Unreliable Machine Learning (2017) (0)
On Routing and Forwarding (2018) (0)
Desirable properties of an IOT ecosystem (2018) (0)
Twas the night before start-up (1985) (0)
Internet Speculations (2012) (0)

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