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Line 67: − ==Career History== − − Vinton Cerf joined Google in September, 2005. <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/vintcerf.html Google]</ref> In Google, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, internet-based products and services. He is also an active public face for Google. − − Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. <ref>[http://www.itu.int/TELECOM/wt95/pressdocs/profiles/cerfbio.html ITU]</ref> In this role, Cerf was responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. Previously, Cerf served as MCI's senior vice president of architecture and technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks including internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use. − − Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982 to 1986 he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. − − During his tenure, from 1976 to 1982, with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of the internet, and internet related data packet and security technologies. − − He has also worked in numerous other IT companies and corporations. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/cerf-testimony-08feb01.htm#Vita ICANN]</ref>
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His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.
His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.
==Career History==
Vinton Cerf joined Google in September, 2005. <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/vintcerf.html Google]</ref> In Google, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, internet-based products and services. He is also an active public face for Google.
Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. <ref>[http://www.itu.int/TELECOM/wt95/pressdocs/profiles/cerfbio.html ITU]</ref> In this role, Cerf was responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. Previously, Cerf served as MCI's senior vice president of architecture and technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks including internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.
Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982 to 1986 he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.
During his tenure, from 1976 to 1982, with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of the internet, and internet related data packet and security technologies.
He has also worked in numerous other IT companies and corporations. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/cerf-testimony-08feb01.htm#Vita ICANN]</ref>
==Internet Organizations==
==Internet Organizations==
Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Brooklyn Polytechnic; and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Brooklyn Polytechnic; and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
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