Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century
Dr.Vinton Cerf, Google, USA

Abstract
In this talk, Vint will address the current status of the Internet, some of the technology changes that are driving its evolution, and some of the global policy issues that have to be dealt with. Among many such issues are included IPv6, mobility, increasing capacity in the core and the edges, broadband alternatives, competition, security and authentication. He will suggest a number of new applications relevant to business and research, before turning to the device-driven Internet that includes sensor networks, control systems, Internet-enabled appliances and so on. Finally, he will report on the status of the interplanetary extension of the Internet now underway at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

Short Bio
Vinton G. Cerf is a vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications for Google. Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet switching technologies. He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet.
Cerf and his colleague Robert E. Kahn received the ACM Turing award in 2004 for founding and developing the Internet. Besides this highest distinction for a computer scientist he is holding numerous awards and honors in engineering, science and as an inventor. He started his career with a mathematics degree from Stanford, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1972 and received over a dozen honorary degrees since then, including the Dr. sc. techn. h.c. from ETH in 1998.
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More information here. I’ll be there.

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