Communications of the ACM
Vint Cerf on Acm, Internet Issues, and Quantum and Machine Computing
Vint Cerf, vice president at Google and former ACM president, offers his opinions on a wide range of topics.
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In a wide-ranging interview, Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet and vice president at Google, discusses a range of topics, including the modern challenges of the Internet, the technologies of the future, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Asked what he sees as the main challenges and controversies surrounding the Internet today, Cerf, co-recipient in 2004 of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, identified the need to ensure users' safety, security, and privacy. He also reiterated his frequent warnings about a "digital Dark Age" that could result as software continues to advance and the means of interacting with older software and data falls away. Finally, he pointed to the Internet of Things, particularly the need to ensure the security of all Internet-connected devices.
Cerf also commented on a number of speculative topics, saying he thinks the singularity envisioned by Ray Kurzweil is "a stretch," but that he sees a great deal of promise in current research into quantum computing and quantum entanglement.
He also comments on the need for professionalism and credentialing in software development and discusses his time as president of ACM. Cerf says ACM's main challenges today are helping to establish 21st century business models, being relevant to computer science practitioners, and helping to promote computer science as a discipline.
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