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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Vint Cerf

1943 - Today

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Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vint Cerf has received more than 2,529,925 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Vint Cerf is the 15th most popular computer scientist (up from 16th in 2019), the 1,114th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,391st in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Vint Cerf is most famous for being one of the co-creators of the TCP and IP protocols, which form the foundation of the internet.

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  • 48

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  • 5.95

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  • 4.15

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Vint Cerf ranks 15 out of 201. Before him are Niklaus Wirth, George Dantzig, Linus Torvalds, John McCarthy, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin. After him are Edgar F. Codd, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Ray Kurzweil, Ken Thompson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Marvin Minsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Vint Cerf ranks 68. Before him are Joni Mitchell, Jerry Bruckheimer, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, John Denver, Eduard Limonov, and Esma Redžepova. After him are Pervez Musharraf, Bernard Tapie, Arthur Ashe, Jean-Louis Tauran, Ulay, and Mustafa Dzhemilev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vint Cerf ranks 1,114 out of 18,182. Before him are Richard Barthelmess (1895), David Scott (1932), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), Bob Kane (1915), Kyle MacLachlan (1959), and Jonathan Banks (1947). After him are Jill Biden (1951), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Robert Aldrich (1918), David Hasselhoff (1952), David Bohm (1992), and Eleanor H. Porter (1868).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Vint Cerf ranks 8. Before him are Richard Stallman (1953), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Donald Knuth (1938), George Dantzig (1914), John McCarthy (1927), and Larry Page (1973). After him are Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Ken Thompson (1943), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Marvin Minsky (1927), and Alan Kay (1940).

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