Vinton Cerf is the co-designer of TCP/IP protocols and co-builder of the internet. He led the creation and design of MCI Mail.
He was a major part of the development of Internet related data transport and security while he worked with DARPA.
He also wrote the communication protocols for the ARPANET, and is working on an interplanetary internet.
- U.S. National Medal of Technology
- An ACM Alan M. Turing Award
- The Presidential Medal of Freedom
- The Japan Award
- The Franklin Award
- And he was made an officer of the French Legion d'Honneur
- Also made a foreign member of the British Royal Society
