Vint Cerf accepts that the company he now works for is embroiled in the patent wars.
But Cerf admitted that much of the Internet's exploitability could have been avoided at its advent.
Rep. Defazo, Vint Cerf, and the National College Republicans all tweeted in favor of the petition.
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Mr. Cerf and a spokeswoman for the state Department of Education declined to comment.
One name generating buzz for this position is Vinton Cerf, the vice president of Google.
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As Cerf noted, many attacks come from users with authorized access who bear a grudge.
He was thanking Vint Cerf for making state-full edges a core design principle of the original web.
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He shares the prize with other internet pioneers Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreessen.
Vint Cerf is the scientist known as the Father of the Internet, and he's now at Google.
"When we came up with this technology we deliberately did not want to make any intellectual property claims, " Cerf says.
Cerf also plugged the contributions of Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) to Web security.
Today, Cerf lamented, the Internet does little to authenticate either servers, like those that host Web sites, or users themselves.
Cerf would like to strike a balance: he prefers solutions that "strongly authenticate" people when necessary, without eliminating anonymity altogether.
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Interestingly, mapping appears to be one of the reasons Google recently hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf as its chief Internet evangelist.
Cerf said that using only general locations was a compromise designed to help routers get packets of information to the right destination.
But Capellas "is a chief technology officer at heart, " says Vinton Cerf, MCI's technology chief and an early designer of the Internet.
Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, seems to agree.
However, company internet evangelist Vint Cerf argues that Google shouldn't (and doesn't) cross a line in the sand on user anonymity.
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If he could start over, Cerf added, he would have built a protocol that allowed "multi-homing, " giving each user a unique IP address.
In an August 2012 report, New Jersey Education Commissioner Chris Cerf said the 13, 700-student district needed "fundamental and transformational reform" to give students a high-quality education.
Cerf, after all, helped to design the Internet to be robust above all else, finding its way around physical and digital hurdles to reliably deliver data.
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"It's terrifying, when you think about scaling and reliability, " says Vinton Cerf, who was on the Internet's original design team and now is a WorldCom senior vice president.
Carlo Crisci, who runs two-star Michelin restaurant Le Cerf, north of Lausanne, cooked a cold fondue of small cheese balls in a hot potato soup for a special event.
Still, there was also acknowledgment that hackers reach new levels of sophistication with each new virus that is written, creating, in Cerf's words, a "cottage industry" of cyber criminals.
Mr Cerf looks back to the seventies when, with another computer scientist Bob Kahn, he was developing some of the key technologies that led to the birth of the Internet.
"We weren't sure if any of this stuff would work, and that's what we were focused on, " says Vinton Cerf, who helped create the Internet protocol schemes still in use today.
And he cites a statement by Google vice president for Internet evangelism Vint Cerf last January, who said that as many as 150 million computers may be unwitting participants in botnets.
Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the Internet, said as much in his letter to Congress earlier this month, even listing the exact ways DNS filtering would be circumvented.
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Vint Cerf - the computer scientist who co-designed some of the internet's core underlying protocols and who now acts as Google's chief internet evangelist - has been even more vocal, penning a series of op-ed columns.
In the early days of his research, Cerf said, he worked on a more secure version of his networking protocol for the National Security Agency, but wasn't able to implement that technology in what would become the public Internet.
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