Vinton G. Stag

Vinton " Vint" Gray Stag (born the June 23rd 1943), researcher and Co-inventor with Bob Khan of the protocol TCP/IP, is regarded as one of the founding fathers of Internet.

Born with New Haven, in the Connecticut, it very early is interested in the electronic and is registered with the Stanford University where it obtains its diploma of mathematics (Bachelor off Science) in 1965. It joined then the the University of California to Los Angeles (UCLA) where it receives a Master off Science and a Ph.D. in 1970 and 1972. During its university course, it starts to work on the project ARPANet, the first network of data transmission by packages, before being appointed professor with Stanford, where it will imagine, with Bob Khan, a means of connecting various networks baptized internetwork , which will be formalized in 1974 in the article has Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication . It is the birth certificate of protocol TCP/IP.

In 1976, it takes part in the research programs of the American army (DARPA) and sets up the development of the protocol TCP/IP which will be used as a basis for Internet.

He becomes vice-president of the company MCI DIGITAL Information Services in 1982, where he launches the development of MCI Mail, first business service of transport connected to Internet.

Vinton Cerf is also one of the founders of the Internet Society (ISOC), created in 1992, which has the role of putting forward the points of view of the users of Internet and of supporting the groups of engineering teams charged to develop Internet, like the Internet Engineering Task Force. He was the first president of the Internet Society between 1992 and 1995 before providing of them the president's functions of the council of 1998 to 1999.

In 1999, it joined ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in membership of the board of directors until 2007.

In 2005, it is engaged by Google Inc. as evangelist Chief of the Internet (Chief Internet Evangelist) .

He also worked with NASA on the project Interplanetary Internet (or " Internet of the étoiles") to define a new communication protocol enters the space stations, the vessels and the artificial satellites. He also collaborates on IPv6, version 6 of protocol IP.

With Bob Kahn, it gains in 2004 the Prix Turing for their precursory work over the internetworking . The two men also enter the National Inventors Hall off Famed in May 2006.

Suffering from Deafness, Vinton Cerf belongs to the office of the Université of Gallaudet; it received a price of association Alexander Graham Bell for the deaf persons and the deaf people. He and its family resides in Virginia, in the United States.

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