Birth and Death:
Vinton Cerf was born on June 23, 1943 .
Academics and Accomplishments:
Vinton Cerf received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Stanford University. He then worked at IBM as a systems engineer. He then left IBM to attend graduate school at UCLA. At UCLA, he earned his M.S degree in 1970, then his Ph.D. in 1972. At UCLA, he met Bob Khan. They both then started working on ARPANET. Cerf then wrote the first TCP protocol, Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program, which he published in 1974. He then worked at DARPA. Later, he moved to MCI where he created the first commercial email system (MCI Mail) connected to the internet.
Impact on computer science:
Vinton Cerf is also known as the Father of the Internet. Cerf was one of the designers of the TCP/IP protocols and engineers of the internet. Vint Cerf imagined a network that could connect people miles away. This network would be able to transmit anything! He and Bob Kahn then created the TCP/IP protocol. The TCP/IP protocol is like the pathway to transfer data from one place to another. It provides communication and can identify how data is transferred. It is one of the most important parts of how the internet works. If Vint Cerf had not created this protocol and the internet, we would still be using mail to talk to each other.
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