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Vinton Gray Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut on June 23, 1943. He began his interest in computer science at a young age. In 1965, he graduated from Stanford University with a degree in math. He worked at IBM for a short amount of time before returning to university to get a master's degree in computer science, which he eventually achieved in 1972. Afterwards, he worked on the ARPANET, the first form of computer network that would be based on sending packets. It could also do other things such as detecting Soviet nuclear testing. In 1973, he worked with Bob Kahn to create a network similar to the ARPANET called the Internet. In 1976, the two produced the protocols of TCP/IP. In 1982, he left to work at another computer science company, MCI, where he created MCI Mail, the first email service on the Internet. He continues to work with the internet and has been the Vice President of Google since 2005. | |
Accomplishments to Computer Science:
MCI Mail, the first email service, was created by Vint Cerf.
Sources:
https://internethalloffame.org/inductees/vint-cerf
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vinton-Cerf
https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/cerf_1083211.cfm
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