79-Year-Old Vint Cerf Receives IEEE Medal of Honor

Long-time Slashdot reader penciling_in shared this special report from CircleID: Vinton Cerf, widely known as the 'Father of the Internet,' has been awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2023 for his contributions to the development of the Internet architecture and for his leadership in its growth as a critical infrastructure for society. In 1974, Robert Kahn and Cerf, who was working as program manager at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Processing Techniques Office, jointly designed the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol. Together they make up the Internet's core architecture and enable computers to connect and exchange traffic.... Since 2005, Cerf has been vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google in Reston, Va., promoting the usage of the Internet for the benefit of the public. Cerf is also in charge of locating new technologies and creating policies that assist the production of Internet-based products and services. IEEE Spectrum shares this quote from one of the endorsers of the award. "Cerf's tireless commitment to the Internet's evolution, improvement, oversight, and evangelism throughout its history has made an indelible impact on the world. It is largely due to his efforts that we even have the Internet, which has changed the way society lives.

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