Cerf's up at Google
 Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – September 8, 2005 – Google
Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it hired Vinton (Vint) Cerf,
the longtime technologist who is widely known as a "founding father" of
the Internet, as Chief Internet Evangelist.
"Vint Cerf is clearly one of the great technology leaders of our time," said
Google CEO Eric Schmidt of Cerf, who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols that were
used to develop the Internet's underlying architecture. "His vision for technology
helped create entire industries that have transformed many parts of our lives.
We are honored to welcome him to Google."
Cerf will continue his leadership in the Internet community, and help
Google build network infrastructure, architectures, systems, and standards
for the next generation of Internet applications.
"Google has already made tremendous strides in making access to information on
the web a reality for users across the globe, but we're still in the Internet's
early innings," he said. "This medium will enjoy wider-spread use than television,
radio or phones, and will ultimately expand beyond planet Earth. Google has always
believed in doing things differently, and I believe that places us in a unique
position to help bring even the wildest Internet visions into reality."
Cerf joins Google from MCI, where he led technology advancements since
1982, with a break to return to research at the Corporation for National
Research Initiatives from 1986 to 1994. On his return to MCI in 1994,
he helped to put MCI on the Internet map. With Robert Kahn, he recently
received the ACM's A.M. Turing Award, considered "the Nobel Prize for
computing," for his achievements in computer networking. Cerf is also
working on the Interplanetary Network, a project of NASA's Jet Propulsion
Lab, which aims to extend the Internet into outer space for planet-to-planet
communications. He will also continue in his role as the Chairman of
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Please visit http://www.google.com/press/images.html for video sound bites from Vint Cerf about this announcement.
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