Vinton Gray Cerf was born on June 23, 1943, as an American citizen from Connecticut. Before he came into the light and is well known as one of the founding fathers of the internet, he was the in charge for the US DARPA and was involved in funding multiple people to work on TCP/IP technology. In the late 1980s internet came into the fold and was becoming a major commercial opportunity. This is when Cerf decided to move to MCI where he played a very significant role in creating the first internet mail.

The idea of internet
Throughout his high school and college life, Cerf had been keen on gaining and implementing the knowledge of the internet. He was, in fact, one of the creators of the internet. He had a job at Rocketdyne working on the Apollo mission. After graduating from Stanford University, he joined IBM, he went on work there for the next 2 years. Following this, he attended graduate school at UCLA where he worked to earn his M.S degree and Ph.D. After completion of his doctorate, Cerf joined Stanford University as an assistant professor from 1972–1976, where along with Bob Kahn, who was part of the team working on ARPANET hardware, he conducted various research and he also worked and was on the designing team of the DoD TCP/IP protocol suite.

Funding
Cerf had been very involved in providing the funding and the formation of ICANN. However, he took some time and then stepped forward to join the board of ICANN which eventually led to him becoming the chairman. Cerf has been active and influential in many organizations that are currently working to make sure the internet provides significant humanitarian value to the world. As is in his nature, he is very supportive of new and innovative projects that are trying to experiment with new methods for solutions to global problems, including the gender gap, the division of digitization due to resources and the variation in employment opportunities.

Career
Cerf had a job of Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, at Google since 2005. His expertise in the area of technology has made him very well-known personnel, including areas such as artificial intelligence, the IPv6 and environmentalism. Since 2015, Cerf has been instrumental in raising issues of concern about the huge risks of digital obsolescence, the potential of losing historic information – a digital “dark age” or “black hole” – given the inadequate digital storage of text, data, images, music and more. Cerf has received a number of honorary degrees, including doctorates, from the University of the Balearic Islands, ETHZ in Zurich, Switzerland, Capitol College, Gettysburg College, Yale University, George Mason University, Marymount University, Bethany College (Kansas), University of Pisa, University of Rovira and Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, LuleÃ¥ University of Technology (Sweden), University of Twente (Netherlands), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications just to name a few. Vinton Gray Cerf and Robert Kahn were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2006.