Vinton G. Cerf
speaker
Vinton G. Cerf is Chief Executive Officer of Tolero Networks. . He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at Google, ICANN, the Internet Society, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A former Stanford Professor and former member of the US National Science Board, he is also the past President of the Association for Computing Machinery, Emeritus Chairman of the Marconi Society and has served in advisory capacities at NIST, DOE, NSF, US Navy, JPL and NRO. He earned his B.S. in mathematics at Stanford and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at UCLA. He is a member of both the US National Academies of Science and Engineering, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and the Worshipful Company of Stationers. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards for his work, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Marconi Prize and Marconi Lifetime Achievement Award, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Legion d’Honneur, the VinFutures Grand Prize and the Franklin Medal. He is a Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering and holds 33 honorary degrees.
Paul Mockapetris
organizer & speaker
Paul Mockapetris is Chief Scientist at ThreatSTOP Inc., with interests ranging from high speed switching systems to applications. He is best known as the creator of the Domain Name System (DNS), and wrote the first implementation of SMTP. In the past he has been CTO at UrbanMedia, Siara, Fiberlane and director of engineering at @Home. His past includes a term as IETF chair, program manager at (D)ARPA, and 15 years of research at USC/ISI. He received his learner’s permits in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, and his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 1982.