The 2008 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Information Communication Theory and Technology
• Achievement:
  Creation of network architecture and communication protocol for the Internet
• Lecture:
  On the Road to the Internet

Major Honors and Awards

1991	ACM Software System Award (with Dr. Kahn)
1996	ACM SIGCOMM Award
1996	C&C Award
1997	U.S. National Medal of Technology (with Dr. Kahn)
1998	Marconi Award
2001	Charles Stark Draper Prize (with Dr. Kahn, L. Roberts, L. Kleinrock)
2002	Prince of Asturias Award (with Dr. Kahn, L. Kleinrock, L. Roberts, T. Berners-Lee)
2004	Turing Award (with Dr. Kahn)
2005	The Presidential Medal of Freedom (with Dr. Kahn)
2006	National Inventors Hall of Fame

Memberships and Fellowships

	Fellow, IEEE
	Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
	Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS)
	Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
	Fellow, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

Academic Degrees

1965	B.S. , Mathematics, Stanford University
1970	M.S. , Computer Science, University of California, Los Angels (UCLA)
1972	Ph.D. , Computer Science, UCLA

Professional Career

1965-1967	IBM
1972-1976	Assistant Professor, Stanford University
1976-1982	DARPA (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
1982-1986	Vice President, MCI
1986-1994	VP, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
1994-2005	Senior Vice President, MCI
2005-present	Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc.

Title

• Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc.

Major Publications

• C.S. Carr, S.D. Crocker, V.G. Cerf, HOST-HOST Communication Protocol in the ARPA Network, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, 1970 Spring Joint Computer Conference, vol. 36, pp. 589-597, May 1970.
• V. G. Cerf, Multiprocessing, Semaphores and a Graph Model of Computation, Ph.D. Dissertation, Computer Science Department. University of California, Los Angeles, March 1972.
• V. G. Cerf and R. E. Kahn, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication," IEEE Transactions on Communication, Vol. COM-22, No. 5, May 1974, pp. 637-648. Reprinted in Computer Networking, edited by Blanc and Cotton, IEEE Press, 1976, pp. 95-106.
• V. G. Cerf, D. D. Cowan, R. C. Mullin, and R. G. Stanton, "A Lower Bound on Average Path Length in Regular Graphs," Networks, Vol. 4, 1974, pp. 335-342.
• V. G. Cerf and P. T. Kirstein, "Issues in Packet Network Interconnection," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 66, No. 11, November1978, pp. 1386-1408.
• V. G. Cerf, "Packet Communication Technology," Protocols and Techniques for Data Communication Networks, (F. F. Kuo, ed.), Prentice Hall, New York, 1980.
• V. G. Cerf, "Networks," Scientific American, Vol 265, No 3, September 1991, p. 72.
• V. G. Cerf (Ed.), National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technologies for Scientific Research, National Academy of Sciences, Computer Science Technology Board, 1993.
• V. G. Cerf, "When They’re Everywhere," Beyond Calculation, Copernicus, Springer Verlag, 1997.
• Michael Pelcovits and Vinton G Cerf, "Economics of the Internet," Emerging Telecommunications Networks, The International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume II, (Gary Madden, ed.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2003, p. 27-54.
• Scott Burleigh, Vinton Cerf, Robert Durst, Kevin Fall, Adrian Hooke, Keith Scott, Howard Weiss, "The Interplanetary Internet: A Communications Infrastructure for Mars Exploration" American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Published by Elsevier Science Ltd., 2003.
• V.G. Cerf, "Internet and the System of Justice", Washington Law Review, Vol. 79, No, 1,February, 2004, p. 25-30.