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One name generating buzz for this position is Vinton Cerf, the vice president of Google.
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He shares the prize with other internet pioneers Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreessen.
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But Capellas "is a chief technology officer at heart, " says Vinton Cerf, MCI's technology chief and an early designer of the Internet.
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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.
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"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.
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Mr. VINTON CERF (Vice President, Google): If this administration evolves in the way that it appears to be evolving, it's likely to be very substantial and increasing interest on the part of the public in engaging, and seeing what the administration is doing.
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