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6:00pm — 6:30pm: Registration
with drinks and appetizers
6:30pm — 7:30pm: Vint's
Cerf's presentation (See below for details)
7:30pm — 8:00pm: Q&A
8:00pm — 9:00pm: Networking
Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century
In this talk, Vint will address the current status of
the Internet, some of the technology changes that are
driving its evolution , and some of the global policy
issues that have to be dealt with. Among many such issues
are included IPv6, mobility, increasing capacity in the
core and the edges, broadband alternatives, competition,
security and authentication. He will suggest a number
of new applications relevant to business and research,
before turning to the device-driven Internet that includes
sensor networks, control systems, Internet-enabled appliances
and so on. Finally, he will report on the status of the
interplanetary extension of the Internet now underway
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet
Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying
new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet
and other platforms for Google.
Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf
is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture
of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton
presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf
and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing
the Internet.
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Cerf served as Senior Vice President at MCI from 1994
to 2005 and as Vice President of the Corporation for
National Research Initiatives from 1986 to 1994 and as
Vice President of MCI from 1982 to 1986. During his tenure
from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played
a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related
data packet and security technologies.
Vint Cerf has served as chairman of the board of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
since November 2000 and has been a Visiting Scientist
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. Cerf served
as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC)
from 1992-1995 and on the ISOC board until 2000. 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.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations
in connection with his work on the Internet. These include
the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of
the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias
award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham
Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association
for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association
for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International
Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham
Bell Medal among many others. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer
Science from UCLA and over a dozen additional honorary
degrees. In December, 1994, People magazine identified
Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."
In addition to his work on behalf of MCI and the Internet,
Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production
for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict." and made
a special guest appearance on the program in May 1998.
Cerf has appeared on television programs NextWave with
Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander
Haig and Caspar Weinberger.
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.
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