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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf
Since 2005, Cerf has been vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google, responsible for identifying new technologies and enabling policies that support the development of advanced Internet-based products and services.
Credit: The Royal Society
IEEE Life Fellow Vinton "Vint" Cerf, widely known as the "Father of the Internet," is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor. He is being recognized "for co-creating the Internet architecture and providing sustained leadership in its phenomenal growth in becoming society's critical infrastructure."
The IEEE Foundation sponsors the annual award.
While working as a program manager at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Processing Techniques Office in 1974, Cerf and IEEE Life Fellow Robert Kahn designed the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol. TCP manages data packets sent over the Internet, making sure they don't get lost, are received in the proper order, and are reassembled at their destination correctly. IP manages the addressing and forwarding of data to and from its proper destinations. Together they make up the Internet's core architecture and enable computers to connect and exchange traffic.
"Cerf's tireless commitment to the Internet's evolution, improvement, oversight, and evangelism throughout its history has made an indelible impact on the world," said one of the endorsers of the award. "It is largely due to his efforts that we even have the Internet, which has changed the way society lives.
From IEEE Spectrum
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