Ask Me Anything with Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf
Feb 11, 2022
About Our Distinguished Guest
Vint is Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, where he works towards ensuring billions more people get access to the internet. He contributes to global policy development and the continued advancement of the Internet.
Vint serves on the boards of significant organizations, including Arch Mission Foundation, working to preserve humanity on earth and in space.
In recognition for the importance of his work to humankind, Vint has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the US National Medal of Technology, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, 29 honorary degrees, and many others. He is a National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee, and was an inaugural Internet Hall of Fame Inductee.
Outside work, Vint enjoys time with family, science fiction, fine wines, and cooking.
Learn More About Vint & His Work
- Vint Cerf, Internet Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductee – Official Biography
- In Vint Cerf's Future, Internet Packets Fall from the Sky – Wired Magazine
- The paper that started it all: A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication – Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn, 1974
Bonus reading: Twas The Night Before Start-up – V. Cerf, 1985
Event Transcript
Jase Wilson: Alright, well, hey, Broadband Money community, thanks for making time today. I think this is our biggest event yet, and it's a real honor here. Our guest today, it doesn't need an introduction, but we're gonna do a little bit of a celebration of him on this event because minimum, we want him to know that we're thankful for the wonderful contributions that he's made to humankind, and helping us unleash our full potential with what he's created and what he's done over the years to advocate for its growth, so it's a real honor, Vint, to get to hang out with you for a little bit of time. Vint Cerf, you were called by Wired Magazine, 'The Father of the Internet.' I know you'd like to say 'co-fathered with Bob Kahn', who covered the paper with you and thought through all those issues with you, 1974. You've done so much since then, we can spend the entire hour going through your achievements, awards, and accolades, and...