Vint Cerf

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at ICANN, the Internet Society, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A former Stanford Professor and former member of the US National Science Board, he is also the past President of the Association for Computing Machinery, Emeritus Chairman of the Marconi Society and serves in advisory capacities at NIST, DOE, NSF, US Navy, JPL and NRO. He earned his B.S. in mathematics at Stanford and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at UCLA. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards for his work, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Japan Prize, the IEEE Medal of Honor, and the Legion d’Honneur.


Sessions

06-18
11:15
60min
Vint Cerf Keynote: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Internet from 2025 on...
Vint Cerf

RFC 3271 spoke about the Internet being for everyone. Even today, in 2025, it isn't. Its functionality keeps growing and changing - new protocols are created - a good reason that Wireshark has a future! Despite its penetration, the Internet is not yet reliably for everyone. In this talk, I will review technical and policy considerations that must be treated to overcome to achieve an Internet that really is for everyone. Will AI help? A question worthy of exploration.

Organization
Room A