Vinton Gray Cerf

 Vinton Gray Cerf (/sɜːrf/; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn.^{[2][7][8][9][10]}

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Cerf in 2016
Born	Vinton Gray Cerf June 23, 1943 (age 82) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Education	Stanford University (BS) University of California, Los Angeles (MS, PhD)
Known for	TCP/IP Internet Society
Awards	ACM Fellow (1994) IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1997) IEEE Medal of Honor (2023) National Medal of Technology (1997) Marconi Prize (1998) Prince of Asturias Award (2002) Turing Award (2004) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005) Japan Prize (2008) Harold Pender Award (2010) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2013) ForMemRS (2016)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Telecommunications
Institutions	IBM,[2] International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad,[2][3] UCLA,[2] Stanford University,[2] DARPA,[2] MCI,[2][4] CNRI,[2] Google[5]
Thesis	Multiprocessors, Semaphores, and a Graph Model of Computation (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Gerald Estrin[6]
Website	research.google/people/author32412/
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He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology,^[2] the Turing Award,^[11] the Presidential Medal of Freedom,^[12] the Marconi Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.