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Vint Cerf

Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943)

person, academic, scientist, inventor, Computer Scientist, engineer, award winner, employee, person that is a company director of a business, person with the star sign cancer, googler
Legal name, Full name
"Vinton Gray Cerf"
Born
1943; June 1943; June 23rd 1943; the United States; North America;  …
Occupation
Computer scientist
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf
Location
Fremont, California
Creator of, Involved in Inventing
the internet
Won
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005), National Medal of Technology (1997)
Gender
male
Nationality
american
Residence
Connecticut
Researcher of
computer science
Educated
Stanford University; University of California, Los Angeles
Expert of
Internet protocol suite, Internet Society
Last Name, Rare Terms
"Cerf"
First Name
"Vinton"
Directs
Avanex
Employer
Google, Stanford University, MCI Communications
Main Occupation
engineering services business
Class
person, engineer, employee, scientist, googler,  …
Studying
mathematics
Born During
1940s
Related Websites
http://fora.tv/2010/01/07/Whats_Next_with_the_Internet_Vint_Cerf_Looks_Ahead#fullprogram, http://www.govtech.com/gt/video/?id=324941, http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/653-04/documents/cerfkahn.pdf, http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2429271, http://www.ptc.org/ptc09,  …
Freebase ID
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003f843"
Qualification
master's degree
DBPedia URI
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vint_Cerf
Middle-name
"Gray"
Birthday
the 23rd of June
Postcode (zipcode)
"94538"
Quotes
"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."; "There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access."; "There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration."; "Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space."; "The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.";  …
Freebase Primary MID
"/m/07z23"
Tell me what you know about Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf, the American computer scientist who is the "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'.". His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees.
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