Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (/ˈsɜrf/; born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
Source: The Mac Observer
Apple and Samsung didn’t kiss and make up this week, despite the hopes of Judge Koh. Windows RT might turn out to be a great iPad seller, Apple thinks the DOJ is lame for pushing its ebook price fixing lawsuit, Google close ...
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Source: Wired
Van Jacobson: the man who averted the late-'80s internet meltdown. Or not. Photo: PARC All Van Jacobson wanted to do was upload a few documents to the internet. Unfortunately, it was 1985. The internet wasn’t yet called the internet. It was called the AR ...
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Source: Techdirt
Cerf, who is an "Internet evangelist" (Vice President) at Google, had some particularly harsh words for the Cybersecurity and Intelligence Protection Act (CISPA), saying it wasn't specific enough on how ...
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Washington -- Varun Mahadevan, 13, of Hayward, took a high-risk bet Thursday that landed him a $10,000 college scholarship and third place in the National Geography Bee. Mahadevan had earned his place among the top ...
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Source: Beaumont Enterprise
"It is regrettable that President Obama is supporting the passage of a cybersecurity bill that compromises the privacy rights of Americans," stated Evelyn Castillo-Bach, founder and CEO of UmeNow. UmeNow announced today that it is calling on Pre ...
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Source: Game Politics
Legendary computer scientist and the man known as "the father of the Internet," Vint Cerf said during the Freedom to Connect conference in Washington on Monday that the International Telecommunications Union will become a "global Internet cop" ...
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Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Yesterday a host of political leaders, artists, scientists, and tech visionaries paid tribute to Steve Jobs at the annual Webby Awards in New York. The tribute started with an opening from Justin Long and John Hodgma ...
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Source: Macworld UK
President Obama was among the well-known figures that paid tribute to Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs at the 16th annual Webby Awards show on Monday. John Hodgman and Justin Long, the actors who played the roles of the PC and M ...
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Source: Ars Technica
Recently, a few bloggers conducted tests that seem to show Comcast’s traffic to its Xbox 360 running Xfinity TV On Demand , which does not count against a user’s usage cap ( as announced in March ), uses a different type of tr ...
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