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===Stand on SOPA/PIPA===
===Stand on SOPA/PIPA===
In December, 2011, Vint Cerf signed onto an open letter to the U.S. Congress sent by the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] that urged the legislature not to pass [[SOPA]] bills, which he and the 82 other signees believed would seriously hinder the future of the Internet, U.S. legitimacy with regards to Internet stewardship, and many industries tied together through the Internet, among other deleterious effects.<ref>[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa Internet Inventors Warn Against SOPA and PIPA, EFF.org]</ref>
In December, 2011, Vint Cerf signed onto an open letter to the U.S. Congress sent by the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] that urged the legislature not to pass [[SOPA]] bills, which he and the 82 other signees believed would seriously hinder the future of the Internet, U.S. legitimacy with regards to Internet stewardship, and many industries tied together through the Internet, among other deleterious effects.<ref>[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa Internet Inventors Warn Against SOPA and PIPA, EFF.org]</ref>
==Other Activities==
Dr. Cerf also served as a technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict" <ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148576/ IMDB]</ref>and made a special guest appearance on the program in May 1998. He appeared on the television programs NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger. He is a distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on the design of the interplanetary Internet.
Cerf is a member of the Board of Directors of the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger Shakespeare Library, the [[MCI]] Foundation, the MarcoPolo Foundation, Avanex Corporation and the ClearSight Systems Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.<ref>[http://www.atlarge.icann.org/naralo/san-francisco-outreach/keynote.htm Keynote Speaker: Dr. Vinton Cerf]</ref>
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