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By Erik J. Larson, PhD

Vinton Grey Cerf is one of the founding fathers of the Internet. He received his degree in mathematics from Stanford University. After a two year stint as an engineer working on QUICKTRAN, an early computer language based on FORTRAN, Cerf received his masters and his Ph.D. in computer science at UCLA.

Cerf is a figure of foundational importance to the development of the Internet. At UCLA he worked on the TCP/IP protocol, where packets of information are sent through the nodes and hubs of computer networks like the Internet. He worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he was active in funding companies to develop the infrastructure and algorithms that comprise the Internet. At telecommunications company MCI, Cerf developed the world’s first commercial email system. But perhaps his most influential and lasting contribution was his early work on Internet protocols. Cerf wrote the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which made communication between computers on the Internet possible. His later work on email and other early applications only add to his fundamental, early work.

Cerf is now Google’s Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist. In his stellar career, he has won a number of prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Hearing impaired, he has been active in providing digital access for people with disabilities.

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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Vint Cerf's Published Works

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Published Papers

Delay-tolerant networking: an approach to interplanetary Internet (2003) (1423)
A brief history of the internet (1999) (1095)
Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture (2007) (1002)
A protocol for packet network intercommunication (1974) (663)
The past and future history of the Internet (1997) (275)
Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program (1974) (184)
Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond (1995) (137)
HOST-HOST communication protocol in the ARPA network (1899) (119)
Issues in packet-network interconnection (1978) (102)
Internet Predictions (2010) (84)
Interplanetary internet (ipn): architectural definition (2001) (76)
On digital diplomacy (2020) (70)
The DoD Internet Architecture Model (1983) (69)
BufferBloat: What’s Wrong with the Internet? (2011) (68)
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) (62)
The Interplanetary Internet: a communications infrastructure for Mars exploration. (2003) (57)
Multiprocessors, semaphores, and a graph model of computation (1972) (55)
Internet (The History) (2005) (54)
A lower bound on the average shortest path length in regular graphs (1974) (48)
Social and ethical behavior in the internet of things (2017) (47)
Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (44)
Delay-Tolerant Network Architecture: The Evolving Interplanetary Internet (2002) (39)
The Internet is for Everyone (2002) (39)
Towards the Future Internet Architecture (1991) (39)
Report of the second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group (1989) (36)
Unconventional computing (2014) (34)
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)
Tutorial : a practical view of computer communications protocols (1978) (28)
Oscillation (2018) (28)
Taking the Internet to the Next Physical Level (2016) (27)
Bufferbloat and Other Internet Challenges (2014) (27)
Information infrastructure (1987) (26)
Beyond the post-PC Internet (2001) (26)
Spam, spim, and spit (2005) (26)
Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols (1988) (26)
Security Implications of Applying the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act to Voice over IP (2006) (26)
A Guide to the Tcp/Ip Protocol Suite (1998) (26)
Who Rules the Net?: Internet Governance and Jurisdiction (2003) (24)
National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technologies for Scientific Research (1993) (22)
IAB recommended policy on distributing internet identifier assignment and IAB recommended policy change to internet "connected" status (1990) (21)
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)
Access Control and the Internet of Things (2015) (20)
PARRY encounters the DOCTOR (1973) (20)
The Internet Activities Board (1989) (20)
Military Requirements for Packet-Switched Networks and Their Implications for Protocol Standardization (1983) (19)
A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (1994) (19)
Space for Internet and Internet for space (2014) (19)
Guidelines for Internet Measurement Activities (1991) (18)
Internet Governance Is Our Shared Responsibility (2013) (18)
The day the Internet age began (2009) (17)
Pre-emption (1981) (17)
Why is accessibility so hard? (2012) (17)
The Past and Future History (1997) (17)
A comprehensive self-driving car test (2018) (17)
Auditory Measures for the Next Billion Users. (2020) (16)
An Interplanetary Internet (2008) (16)
Information and misinformation on the internet (2016) (16)
Avoiding "Bit Rot": Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information [Point of View] (2011) (15)
Delay Tolerant Networking (2002) (15)
A Scientific Supercourse (2006) (15)
Where is the science in computer science? (2012) (14)
Augmented Intelligence (2013) (14)
Prospects for the internet of things (2015) (14)
Requirements for the Internet (2003) (14)
Computer science revisited (2012) (13)
IoT Safety and Security as Shared Responsibility (2016) (13)
The peace of westphalia (2018) (13)
An information avalanche (2007) (12)
Safety in Cyberspace (2011) (12)
On the evolution of Internet technologies (2004) (12)
First, Do No Harm (2011) (12)
Corporate Networks: The Strategic Use of Telecommunications (1993) (12)
Computer science in the curriculum (2016) (12)
When they're everywhere (1997) (11)
Assessment of ARPANET protocols (1974) (11)
The open Internet: what it is, and why it matters (2009) (10)
A partial census of trivalent generalized Moore networks (1975) (10)
Enrollments explode! but diversity students are leaving… (2016) (10)
The Data Reconfiguration Service—an experiment in adaptable, process/process communication (1971) (10)
Net Neutrality Compendium: Human Rights, Free Competition, and the Future of the Internet (2015) (10)
Trust and the Internet (2010) (9)
The future of the internet (1997) (9)
Revisiting the tragedy of the commons (2013) (9)
Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network (1990) (8)
Multilayer and Multimetric Quality Control: The Supercourse (2010) (8)
The electronic mailbox: a new communication tool for the hearing impaired. (1978) (8)
Explaining the role of GOSIP (1990) (8)
Gateways for the Internet of Things: An old problem revisited (2013) (8)
Topological Design Considerations in Computer Communication Networks (1975) (8)
Measurement of Recursive Programs (1971) (8)
Loon SDN: Applicability to NASA's next-generation space communications architecture (2018) (8)
the communication (1998) (8)
Can liberty survive the digital age? (2017) (8)
A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service (1993) (7)
SPECIFICATION OF INTERNET TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM TCP (Version 2) (1977) (7)
What if it's us? (2014) (7)
Defining Tolerance: Impacts of Delay and Disruption when Managing Challenged Networks (2011) (7)
30 Years of RFCs (1999) (7)
The role of archives in digital preservation (2017) (7)
Innovation and the Internet (2008) (6)
Running AMOOC (2013) (6)
DARPA ACTIVITIES IN PACKET NETWORK INTERCONNECTION (1979) (6)
Sherry Turkle: Alone Together (2011) (6)
Research Pays Off (1996) (6)
Packet Satellite Technology Reference Sources (1982) (6)
An Experimental Service for Adaptable Data Reconfiguration (1972) (6)
Successful strategies for IPv6 rollouts. (2011) (6)
Emergent Properties, Human Rights, and the Internet (2012) (5)
Defense against the Dark Arts (2012) (5)
Internet of Things. Information Processing in an Increasingly Connected World (2018) (5)
Growing the ACM family (2013) (5)
Potpourri (2012) (5)
I remember IANA (1998) (5)
Act one - the poems (1989) (5)
Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2013) (4)
What Hath We Wrought? (2017) (4)
Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide with Cdrom (1999) (4)
A brittle and fragile future (2017) (4)
What's a robot? (2013) (4)
Responsible programming (2014) (4)
Economics of the Internet (2003) (4)
On durability (2020) (4)
Successful Strategies for IPv6 Rollouts. Really. (2011) (4)
Computer science education---revisited (2013) (4)
Requiem for the ARPANET (1990) (4)
Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists (2002) (4)
Assessing the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and Future Possibilities (2007) (4)
The Internet at Risk (2013) (3)
A half-century makes a difference (2010) (3)
Apps and the web (2016) (3)
Information infrastructure (1987) (3)
Status report on proposed Data Reconfiguration Service (1971) (3)
A long way to have come and still to go (2014) (3)
On national information infrastructure : Civic networking (1994) (3)
Preface to This Special Issue on Computer Telephony (1996) (3)
Secure Identities (2011) (3)
An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols (1995) (3)
A revolution in India (2013) (3)
Knocking Down Strawmen (2014) (3)
Dependencies (2015) (3)
Network and infrastructure user requirements for transatlantic research collaboration: Brussels, July 16-18, and Washington July 24-25, 1990 (1991) (3)
Natural Disasters and Electric Infrastructure (2011) (3)
Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metophors for Inventing the Net (1996) (3)
Forty Years Ago (2014) (3)
The internet governance ecosystem (2014) (3)
Cognitive implants (2014) (3)
Augmented reality (2014) (3)
The Future of the Internet: Implications for Managers an Interview with Vinton G. Cerf (2011) (3)
Host Address Availability Recommendations (2016) (3)
AI is not an excuse! (2019) (3)
Information technology: A digital genius at play (2017) (2)
Data transfer protocols (1971) (2)
A Revised View of the IoT Ecosystem (2017) (2)
On Risk (2016) (2)
Abstraction, Federation, and Scalability (2013) (2)
The Right to Connect and Internet Censorship (2012) (2)
Cargo Cults and Information Technology Development (2013) (2)
Internet and Jurisdiction (2018) (2)
Making Innovation Happen: 2016 IRI Medal Address (2016) (2)
Self-authenticating identifiers (2018) (2)
NCP statistics (1972) (2)
The upper layers of the internet (2018) (2)
Loose Couplings (2013) (2)
A perspective on ubiquitous computing (1992) (2)
The Data Reconfiguration Service: An Experiment in Adaptable, Process (1971) (2)
2012 Isn't the End of the World (2010) (2)
Open Source, Smart Grid, and Mobile Apps (2011) (2)
'As we may think' (2015) (2)
ARPANET Management Study (1974) (2)
Well known socket numbers (1972) (2)
'But officer, I was only programming at 100 lines per hour!' (2013) (2)
The man behind the machine. (1991) (2)
Ubiquity symposium: The science in computer science: computer science revisited (2012) (2)
Does innovation create or destroy jobs? (2014) (2)
Digital Government and the Internet (2002) (2)
A Perspective from the Private Sector: Ensuring that Forum Follows Function (2014) (2)
Some possible government roles in information infrastructure (1995) (2)
Turing test 2 (2018) (2)
Formation of Network Measurement Group (NMG) (1972) (2)
"It's the Net, Stupid" (2012) (2)
APIs, standards, and enabling infrastructure (2019) (2)
2021 Internet Perspectives (2021) (2)
Recent research in artificial intelligence, heuristic programming, and network protocols. (1974) (2)
Hazards of the information superhighway (2019) (2)
Things and the Net (2012) (2)
The Unfinished Work of the Internet (2019) (2)
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning (2017) (2)
One is glad to be of service (2001) (2)
Sometimes it takes some time! (2014) (1)
Invitation to the Second Symposium on Problems in the Optimization of Data Communications Systems (1971) (1)
How do I rely on thee, smartphone? (2022) (1)
The Internet of Things and Sensors and Actuators (2012) (1)
Unfinished Business (2014) (1)
Multisensory adventures (2020) (1)
Ethics and the Internet (1991) (1)
Host-host control message formats (1969) (1)
Traceability (2018) (1)
ARPA Internetwork Protocols Project Status Report (1975) (1)
Bringing New Tools to the White House Rethinking the President ’ s Daily Intelligence Brief (2014) (1)
The internet in the 21st century (2018) (1)
Heidelberg Laureate Forum II (2014) (1)
Zero Text Length EOF Message (1969) (1)
A View from the 21th Century (1994) (1)
The human touch (2015) (1)
ACM and the Professional Programmer (2014) (1)
Polyglot! (2019) (1)
The last 40, the next 40: The Internet's arc (2019) (1)
Star struck in Lindau (2016) (1)
Back to the future, part II (2019) (1)
A celebration of accomplishments (2015) (1)
The Interplanetary Internet: The Next Frontier in Mobility (2001) (1)
The sound of programming (2018) (1)
An interview with U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith (2015) (1)
ACM and the professional programmer (2014) (1)
The Internet of Everyone (2014) (1)
Comments on NCP/TCP mail service transition strategy (1980) (1)
SCCU/MCCU Characteristics for Autodin 2 (1976) (1)
Advancing the ACM agenda (2015) (1)
Information, Data, Security in a Networked Future (2012) (1)
'We're going backward!' (2016) (1)
Shields up! (2018) (1)
Mail transition plan (1980) (1)
Ownership vs. stewardship (2019) (1)
Memory with a twist (2015) (1)
Freedom and the social contract (2013) (1)
Looking beyond the millenium (1997) (1)
Cascade failure (2015) (1)
On (computing) artifacts (2015) (1)
Data Reconfiguration Service: An implementation specification (1971) (1)
Internet governance and regulations in Latin America (2019) (1)
The future of text redux (2021) (1)
Digital Dark Age (2016) (1)
The IANA transition (2016) (1)
What does a static, sustainable economy look like? (2021) (1)
Proceedings of the 1975 ACM SIGCOMM/SIGOPS workshop on Interprocess communications (1975) (1)
Our Fragile Power Grid (2016) (1)
In the belly of the net (1999) (1)
Current flow-control scheme for IMPSYS (1973) (1)
Measuring Connectivity: A Call to Measure Internet Development with Open, Timely, and Relevant Data (2015) (1)
Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) (1991) (1)
The work of IFIP working group 6.1 (1975) (1)
Network meeting (1969) (1)
Libraries considered hazardous (2019) (1)
Unreliable Machine Learning (2017) (0)
Video Compression the Corner Office View (2010) (0)
UCLA - Computer Science Graphics Overview (1971) (0)
Frontier Journal High-tech Think Tank and Action Workbench (2007) (0)
Archive (2009) (0)
National information infrastructure (NII) at Supercomputing '93 (panel) (1993) (0)
Celebrating excellence (2018) (0)
Digital synergy (2022) (0)
The Electronic library : vision and implementation (1989) (0)
Musings on the Internet. (2002) (0)
A Few Use Cases (2019) (0)
Undo, redo, and regrets (2019) (0)
On neural networks (2018) (0)
International dialogue overview (1899) (0)
Networking in the nineties (panel session) (1990) (0)
When email isn't private (2016) (0)
EIC Misha Rabinovich Talks with Dejan Milojicic and Vint Cerf (2014) (0)
Making It All Compute [My First Job] (2014) (0)
Heidelberg anew (2016) (0)
The power of big ideas (2016) (0)
Software at scale (2013) (0)
The Organic Internet (2012) (0)
Challenge for Society of Scale and Speed of Technological Change (2020) (0)
In praise of under-specification? (2017) (0)
Broadband Transparency and the Measurement Lab (2011) (0)
Internet, Technology, and the Future: An Interview with Vint Cerf (2019) (0)
Digital Democracy (2020) (0)
Musings on the Internet, Part 2 (2004) (0)
Electronic Mail and the Paper Society (Panel) (1986) (0)
Twas the night before start-up (1985) (0)
National information infrastrucwe (NII) at Supercomputing '93 (1993) (0)
The Fragmentation of the Internet (2016) (0)
A view of verification technology (1981) (0)
ACM's 2016 general election (2015) (0)
A Persistent Headache (2015) (0)
On the Simulation of Everything (2017) (0)
Half-baked high-resolution referencing (2021) (0)
Open access to academic research (2017) (0)
Desirable Properties of Internet Identifiers (2017) (0)
IMP-IMP and HOST-HOST Control Links (1969) (0)
There is nothing new under the sun (2015) (0)
ACM on-line (1993) (0)
Unintended consequences (2018) (0)
REPRINT---FROM CACM APRIL 2016Enrollments explode! (2016) (0)
Deep Retraining and Innovation (2017) (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)
Smartphones and Hearing Aids (2021) (0)
A genetic theory of the Silicon Valley phenomenon (2017) (0)
Lest We Forget (2015) (0)
Belated Network Meeting Report (1970) (0)
Internet Speculations (2012) (0)
The Battle for Internet Openness (2011) (0)
Network Working Group an Assessment of Arpanet Protocols (2009) (0)
Practical Solutions: Basic and Applied Research, Science, Engineering, and Design (2016) (0)
2nd Joint European Networking Conference (1991) (0)
Celebrations! (2016) (0)
Preserving the internet (2022) (0)
"Ethics" (2016) (0)
The Autonomous Vehicle and Its Temptations (2018) (0)
The Data Reconfiguration Service - Compiler/Interpreter Implementation Notes (1971) (0)
Mathematical methods and algorithms of business informatics (2016) (0)
Creation of a Testbed for Innovative Educational TV Experiments. Final Report. (1975) (0)
Summary of This Book (2015) (0)
Milestones for Computing Future (2015) (0)
Internet Governance and the Internet Governance Forum Redux (2015) (0)
Internet Collisions (2016) (0)
Oral history interview with Vinton G. Cerf (1990) (0)
Repairability redux (2020) (0)
Information Sharing in the 21st Century (2008) (0)
I Remember IANA (Tribute, Jonathan B. Postel 1943-1998). (1998) (0)
Desirable properties of an IOT ecosystem (2018) (0)
Social, Technical and Economic Consequences of the Internet Evolution (2007) (0)
Padcasting (2015) (0)
Back to the future (2019) (0)
A people-centered economy (2018) (0)
Six education (2017) (0)
Interplanetary internet: an architectural framework for space internetworking (2003) (0)
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Grumpy old cells (2017) (0)
Systeme de communication radio internet (2001) (0)
Honoring our best (2013) (0)
"What We Do Now, Kemosabe?" (2021) (0)
In memoriam: Paul Baran (2011) (0)
Information infrastructure (1987) (0)
The Third Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2015) (0)
International dialogue (1975) (0)
Now for something entirely different (2017) (0)
A hands-free ride (2019) (0)
Computer Networks: Past and Future (1991) (0)
The geo-internet and how we may use it (2008) (0)
Formalisms for interprocess communication (1975) (0)
A Conversation with Vinton Cerf (2016) (0)
Instrument Thyself! (2014) (0)
In debt to the NSF (2019) (0)
Internet and the Other IP (2013) (0)
ARPANET Management Study: New Application Areas (1974) (0)
I can remember IANA (1998) (0)
Welcome to the ACM Turing Centenary Program (2012) (0)
The IRI Medal (2016) (0)
Why Monitor Violent Websites? A Justification * (2012) (0)
The Data Reconfiguration Service (1971) (0)
Comments on the IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol changes (1975) (0)
Censoring the net is not the answer, but… (2022) (0)
Frontier Visionary Interview - Hindsight, Insight and Foresight (2008) (0)
Interplanetary Internet (IPN) : the next frontier in mobility (2001) (0)
Stated Meeting-Cambridge (2011) (0)
On truth and belief (2022) (0)
It came from outer space! (2021) (0)
DARPA interdomain addressing (panel session, title only) (1985) (0)
Message Matching-based Artificial Bee Colony based Behaviour Detection in Delay Tolerant Networks (2017) (0)
On Routing and Forwarding (2018) (0)
Heidelberg laureate forum (2017) (0)
Event Information - Proceedings - Part 01: Welcome and Introductions (November 29, 2007) (2013) (0)
On the internet of medical things (2020) (0)
Keeping the internet open (2016) (0)
On heterogeneous computing (2021) (0)
My Prodigal Child's Next Steps (2005) (0)
Adaptive Position based Reliable Routing Protocol (APBRRP) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2020) (0)
Virtual reality redux (2014) (0)
Keynote: Internet Evolution (2008) (0)
The house elves of ACM (2014) (0)
Taking Internet's temperature: prescriptions for the 21st century (2004) (0)
On the road in Latin America (2015) (0)
1364788 leah Hoffman in search of Dependable Design (0)
ACM president's salary increased by 300%! (2013) (0)
The Problem of Exclusive Arrangements in Multiple Dwelling Units: Unlocking Broadband Growth in Indonesia and the Global South (2015) (0)

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