{"393491":{"#nid":"393491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Vint Cerf visits Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe man widely lauded as the \u201cFather of the Internet\u201d \u2013 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/research.google.com\/pubs\/author32412.html\u0022\u003EVint Cerf\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 made a special visit to Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing this week to speak to students and faculty and listen to undergraduate poster presentations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECerf -- who is vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google, and vice chair of the Marconi Society -- delivered the keynote \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/play.media.gatech.edu\/s\/cc.gatech.edu\/COC\/1cf9bae7-bdc1-5ec2-8694-8dec69c436df\u0022\u003Eaddress\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0022Dynamics, Evolution and Explosion of the Internet (to Billions of Devices),\u0022 on March 31 in the Klaus Atrium. He discussed what he foresees as a looming Digital Dark Age, when future generations may not be able to access our work because of device limitations (who still has an eight-inch floppy disk?). He also discussed how we connect billions of devices and a growing proliferation of sensors -- from automobiles to security to \u201csmart\u201d wine corks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe addressed how the proliferation of technology in traditional objects creates new vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Most of the reasons we have these vulnerabilities is that our software stinks,\u201d he said. \u201cWe haven\u0027t improved our ability to write software. We should pay attention to reinforcing our security within the software as well as the security of the hardware.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI would like to see that everyone takes a required course in programming before leaving high school. It prepares you to know how hard it is to write code, how hard it is to find bugs, and to be prepared that it may not work as advertised,\u201d said Cerf, winner of the 2004 Turing Award, among other distinctions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a graduate student at UCLA, Cerf contributed to the development of host-to-host protocol as part of a group that connected the first two nodes of ARPAnet, the Internet\u2019s predecessor. He continued to research packet network protocols and co-designed the TCP\/IP protocol suite for the Department of Defense. Over the next 10 years, he further developed what would become the Internet and led the engineering of the first commercial email service connected to the Internet. Today, the Internet has 1.8 billion hosts and 2.9 billion users.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe significance of Vint Cerf\u2019s visit to Georgia Tech cannot be overstated,\u201d said Dean Zvi Galil. \u201cHis contributions to computer science have dramatically changed nearly every aspect of our daily lives \u2013 from how we monitor the world around us, transmit and store data, stay close to the ones we love or turn strangers into new communities of support. It was an honor to have him here.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing the lecture, Cerf presented awards to undergraduate students for the quality of their poster presentations. He participated in a panel discussion about challenges for women in technology along with Aakanksha Chowdhery, postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond; Dana Randall, director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center and ADVANCE Professor of Computing, and Ellen Zegura, professor of computer science, with moderator Hatti Hamlin,\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eexecutive director of the Marconi Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe man widely lauded as the \u201cFather of the Internet\u201d \u2013 Vint Cerf \u2013 made a special visit to Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing this week to speak to students and faculty and listen to undergraduate poster presentations.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The man widely lauded as the \u2018Father of the Internet\u2019 \u2013 Vint Cerf \u2013 made a special visit to Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing this week to speak to students and faculty and listen to undergraduate poster presentations."}],"uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-04-03 10:23:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:58","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"393501":{"id":"393501","type":"image","title":"Vint Cerf Headshot","body":null,"created":"1449246332","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:32","changed":"1475895110","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:50","alt":"Vint Cerf Headshot","file":{"fid":"75606","name":"vintcerf.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/vintcerf.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/vintcerf.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":396175,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/vintcerf.jpg?itok=6KC9Ao8X"}}},"media_ids":["393501"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETara La Bouff\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tlabouff@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etlabouff@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}