Vint and I were both on a panel at the National Academy about a week ago, and one of the questions that came up was,
Vint , thank you so much.
Vint Cerf; Carla LaFever, who worked with him, these are amazing who have stepped up and said, we want to be a part of this and we want to help.
Vint Cerf, for example, who invented the internet.
Vint Cerf: You know, I always get nervous when people clap before you say anything.
Vint Cerf: I -- really, I'm stunned at this overwhelming turnout.
Vint Cerf: If you fast forward a few years, you see an Internet that looks like this.
Vint Cerf: No.
Vint Cerf: And, of course, the connectivity is clearly I.P.
Vint Cerf: Somebody throw the -- all right.
Vint Cerf: All right.
Vint Cerf: I thought, you know, that we didn't know if this thing was going to work, and surely 4.3 billion terminations is enough
Vint Cerf: The question is, does Windows 3000 know how to interpret a 1,000-year-old PowerPoint file.
Vint Cerf: That way, I can do a rapid inventory to see if any bottles have left the wine cellar without my permission.
Vint Cerf: Clearly, I have some work to do to debug the architecture.
Vint Cerf: The problem is, there's a thing on the surface of Mars, and it rotates around, and you can't talk to it until it comes back around again.
Vint Cerf: Never.
Vint Cerf: I know.
Vint Cerf: And we were running out of graduate students.
Vint Cerf: Can you use the microphone?
Vint Cerf: And now -- I'm not trying to get TCP/IP stuck in her brain.
Vint Cerf: So there -- I think, honestly, that our ability to network ourselves in the sensory sense is quite likely.
Because Vint Cerf is one of the great heroes in this book.
So Vint , you mean if it wasn't ecumenical, we wouldn't have gotten that thank you note?
from Vint Cerf.
But Vint Cerf has done a lot to make that change.
of Vint Cerf]It's kind of funny, after World War II, the Americans were really and dare I say cocky, which is unusual for Americans.
This is Vint 's birthday.
And I said Vint , I'd love to find a creative approach to this problem because I'm not sure I'm thinking about it
Male #14: Isn't Vint really Italian?
Internet's which Vint Cerf there, he was probably the key one of the key figures in designing.
But let us say that Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn looked at this and said, there are 22 things you really left out
There's a lady that Vint and I both know who wrote some monographs on infrastructure development.
So when you point out Vint and myself, what makes you single us out?
One of the first programs that I ever used-- Vint actually wrote one about PARRY and the DOCTOR.
Food waste, as Vint had said; the impact of food waste; the solution; and what's going on in the future.
I mean, Vint had talked about the fact that when I was a part of MCI, I saw a company that had produced MCI Mail, a really wonderful email service.
Or, I called Vint Cerf, who's a friend and a mentor.
I got a very thought provoking email from Vint Cerf after I wrote this, which really made my day.
Vint Cerf: On the other hand, you know, if I had stood up and said we need 128 bits of address space because this is going to be the world's backbone in 25 or 30 years,
I don't know how to -- >>> How about if we -- Vint Cerf: There we go.
in the early 1990s, and I first met Vint when he was at MCI, and I was trying to convince Time Inc to do things
As an engineer, and I think Vint would agree with this, too, a lot of the details are in making things actually work.
In fact, I was talking to Vint Cerf here.
And if you don't believe me, you want to believe Vint Cerf, the inventor of the internet, who I want to say reached out to me to have his quote
Vint Cerf.
In fact, I did a Google meeting in Washington last week with Vint and Bob Kahn about the creation of the Internet
And I appreciate you and Carla taking the time, and especially Vint , thank you for doing this on your birthday.
And it's funny, because the first email that got me thinking about this was Vint Cerf saying, "Why shouldn't Google be able to choose what software runs on my Chromebook if they bought
So we are honored that Vint is a Greygler,