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Vinton Cerf Joins Google

Google Inc. has announced that it hired Vinton Cerf, the longtime technologist who is widely known as a "founding father" of the Internet, as Chief Internet Evangelist. "Vint Cerf is clearly one of the great technology leaders of our time," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt of Cerf, who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols that were used to develop the Internet`s underlying architecture. "His vision for technology helped create entire industries that have transformed many parts of our lives. We are honored to welcome him to Google."

"Google has already made tremendous strides in making access to information on the web a reality for users across the globe, but we`re still in the Internet`s early innings," he said. "This medium will enjoy wider-spread use than television, radio or phones, and will ultimately expand beyond planet Earth. Google has always believed in doing things differently, and I believe that places us in a unique position to help bring even the wildest Internet visions into reality."

Cerf joins Google from MCI, where he led technology advancements since 1982, with a break to return to research at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives from 1986 to 1994. On his return to MCI in 1994, he helped to put MCI on the Internet map. With Robert Kahn, he recently received the ACM`s A.M. Turing Award, considered "the Nobel Prize for computing", for his achievements in computer networking.