Tag: VINTCERF

In the 1960s, Vint Cerf and other researchers at DARPA created ARPANET, the precursor to the modern Internet (and the precursor to their insane penchant for acronyms). In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee gave birth to the World Wide Web. In 1998, ICANN was formed to govern and protect the Web. So in 2010, ICANN, realizing that the Internet was under constant threat from hackers, malware and rogue ...

The Webbys are where viral video creators and Web entrepreneurs get to rub elbows with the likes of Al Gore and Isabella Rossellini. The winners of the 2010 Webby Awards, which will be held on June 14th, have already been announced, and we can't say we're surprised by many of the choices. Roger Ebert will be receiving an award for "raising the bar for online journalism," and the committee ...

Vint Cerf, Google VP and so-called "father of the Internet," has been hacked. Well not him personally, but his Twitter account. Spammers hijacked the tech visionary's Twitter account and began pestering his followers with messages linking back to a pair of auction sites. Every minute for several hours messages (many began with variations on "Have you heard about" or "My friend mentioned") were ...

NASA is reporting the first successful tests of its Deep Space Network modeled after Earth's own Internet. Instead of using TCP/IP, however, the interplanetary communication network relies upon DTN (Disruption-Tolerant Networking) co-developed by none other than Google's Vinton Cerf. As such, NASA's network does not assume a continuous end-to-end connection -- if a link is lost due to solar ...

Google Vice President and so called "father of the Internet," Vint Cerf, has thrown his two cents in on this year's election. Cerf has come out forcefully in favor of Obama, based primarily on his support for 'Net neutrality, which John McCain does not support. Net neutrality is a complex issue that we can't possibly cover in a single brief blog post, but we're willing to risk some slight ...

Internet pioneer and Google vice president Vint Cerf believes that downloaded TV shows will soon take the place of traditional broadcasts, reports the UK's Daily Mail. Referring to this potential transition as TV's "iPod moment," Cerf cites the increasing popularity of on-demand programming as evidence. While critics claim that the massive strain such high demand would place on the Internet ...