You have to attend this (and arrive in good time - it will likely be mobbed). I'll be in Paris, unfortunately. Paul Begin forwarded message: From: "Hall, Margaret J" <margaret.hall@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:margaret.hall@imperial.ac.uk>> Date: 1 November 2013 13:52:51 GMT To: doc-academic-list <doc-academic-list@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:doc-academic-list@imperial.ac.uk>>, doc-ra-list <doc-ra-list@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:doc-ra-list@imperial.ac.uk>>, doc-all-students <doc-all-students@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:doc-all-students@imperial.ac.uk>> Subject: Distinguished Seminar Series in Computer Science -- Vint Cerf -- 27-11-2013 SENT BY MARGARET HALL ON BEHALF OF MAJA PANTIC --------------- Dear all, Just a reminder about the upcoming lecture of the Distinguished Seminar Series in Computer Science to be given by Vint Cerf. For more information about Vint Cerf's Distinguished Lecture in Computer Science, please scroll below. For more information about Vint Cerf and his work, please visit: http://research.google.com/pubs/author32412.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf The talk will take place on Wednesday 27-11-2013 at 15.00, 308/311. The main organiser of the talk is Alex Wolf. If you would like to meet Vint Cerf in person, please contact Alex for arrangements. I hope that all will be able to attend. Best wishes, Maja *************** Date of the talk: November 27, 2013, at 15.00, in 308/311 (Huxley Building, 180 Queens' Gate), followed by a drinks reception in DoC Common Room Speaker: Vint Cerf Title: Internet Challenges for the 21st Century Abstract: The Internet continues to expand, to support new applications and to excite public and government concerns over abuse of this infrastructure. This talk will explore technical directions for further Internet evolution and explore the implications of the Internet of things, the Information explosion and the extension of the Internet to operate across the solar system. Bio: Vinton (Vint) G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment."
From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.
Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering. Vint currently serves as President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Vint has received numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, among many others. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees. ***************