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3 unusual facts about Vint Cerf


Damaging quotation

Partisans have so often used this distorted quotation to discredit him that Internet pioneer Vint Cerf (and others who participated in actually inventing the Internet) have made a point of noting Gore's support and the error of the discreditors.

Peter Dengate Thrush

In November 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of ICANN, taking over the role from Vint Cerf.

Right to Internet access

High profile criticism of the notion that access to the Internet should be a human right comes from Vint Cerf who is often dubbed the “father of the Internet.”


George Sadowsky

Like Vint Cerf, Sadowsky served as a member of the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov's IT Advisory Council from March 2002 till January 2012.

Network Startup Resource Center

NSRC receives major funding and in-kind donations from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Google and Google.org, Cisco, O'Reilly Media, Vint Cerf, the Richard M. Karp Foundation, IDRC, ISOC, and many other institutional and private donors.

Open Technology Institute

Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open, distributed server platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools founded in 2009 by Vint Cerf, Sascha Meinrath, and several other academics, researchers, and institutions.


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