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Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Vint Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet.

Washington DC area
Joined June 2012
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BREAKING: United Airlines requests nationwide groundstop citing a computer issue.
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Great #bufferbloat explanation for the masses. Many programmers and engineers, like @vgcerf, @mtaht, @JimGettys, and many more have cracked this nut for our collective benefit: hackaday.com/2022/08/18/buff… h/t @jp_bennett via @hackaday #latency #jitter #WiFi #Linux #OpenWrt
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On behalf of the President Zelenskyy I’m honored to pass the first Ukraine’s peace prize to @Google @Karan_K_Bhatia. Our small express of gratitude. Company proved its bravery and devotion to freedom. As Ukrainians do every single day. Google stands for Ukraine! Just google it 😉
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It's official: tickets are now available for our semester-long master class, The #DecadeOfDigitalInclusion! This ambitious event series features a dream team of leaders from technology, policy, and digital inclusion: ow.ly/EN8050Fwafq
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Who is joining us for #AsteroidDayLIVE? Here’s a quick preview… (@DrBrianMay @AnoushehAnsari @Astro_Flow @masi_gianluca @MissionToPsyche @LucyMission #DART…) Watch it on asteroidday.org, Twitch and via @SES_Satellites on June 30th at 18:00 CET | 16:00 UTC | 12:00 ET.
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Students: Be part of ‘The Future of Text’ book: Write an article on your perspective of the future of text of around 1,000 words and you could be featured alongside some of the most brilliant minds of our generation & meet Vint Cerf @vgcerf futuretextpublishing.com/com…
Kicking off the Chocolate Rain 🍫🌧 region match-ups is 1-seed Vint Cerf (@vgcerf) with "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" vs 16-seed Jesse Williams (@ijessewilliams) with "Afraid? Okay. Do It Afraid" - vote for your fave! 👇 #WebbyAllTime5
80%(1) Vint Cerf
20%(16) Jesse Williams
65 votes • Final results
We are committed to partnering with the #UN on #DigitalCooperation to spur action to build back better. Today we announced $20M in Ad Grants for global recovery to help UN organizations leading the COVID-19 response to provide critical, accurate information around the world.
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vinton g cerf retweeted
Here you go
Replying to @elonmusk
Can you release the landing video of BulgariaSat-1 from 2017?
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The Coronavirus Tech Handbook The ultimate collection of tools, websites and data relating to the Coronavirus outbreak. If you're building a project, please submit it! #CoronaOutbreak #Coronavirus #COVID_19 coronavirustechhandbook.com
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Teachers, what are your biggest issues with student authorship & readership software? #teacher #teaching #writing #marking #university #school – at London, England
To get to Mars we will need a Cybertruck for the mind To realise its potential Neuralink will need to have the oldest tech upgraded as well: Text @elonmusk if you are interested I am working with @vgcerf on continuing Doug Engelbart’s perspective: wordpress.liquid.info/12/to-…
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Congratulations to Sundar - he has everything Google and Alphabet need. Thank you to Larry and Sergey for everything - your insight and brilliance, your intensity and your friendship.
I’m excited about Alphabet’s long term focus on tackling big challenges through technology. Thanks to Larry & Sergey, we have a timeless mission, enduring values and a culture of collaboration & exploration - a strong foundation we’ll continue to build on blog.google/inside-google/al…
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This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we're announcing updates to Live Transcribe, a tool that provides real-time transcriptions on Android. It'll soon show sound events - like a knock on the door - and enable transcripts to be saved on device. #GAAD blog.google/products/android…
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The directive should also permit the sharing of facts and the use of snippets and limited previews – which provide needed context for web users – without the need for a license.
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The final text should make it clear that all publishers have the right to control their own business models, giving them the choice to waive the need for a commercial license for their content.
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On #Article11, the Parliament’s version would harm smaller news publishers, limit innovation in journalism and reduce choice for European consumers.
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We are committed to protecting content, but need rights holders to play their part. Rights holders need to provide reference files of content, and copyright notices with key information (e.g. URLs), so that platforms can identify and remove infringing content.
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The EP version holds internet services directly liable for any copyright infringement in the content that people share on their platforms. A13 is workable only if it provides a way for platforms that act responsibly to not to be held liable for every piece of content users upload
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On #Article13, some of the versions we’ve seen harm the thriving creative economy in Europe, including YouTube’s creator community.
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