At Google, Vint Cerf contributes to global policy and business development and continued spread of the Internet. Widely known as
one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served
in executive positions at the Internet Society, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the American Registry for
Internet Numbers, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and
on the faculty of Stanford University. Vint Cerf sat on the US National Science Board and is a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. Cerf is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, ACM,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Computer Society,
Worshipful Companies of Information Technologists and Stationers and is a member of the National Academies of Engineering and
Science. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the US
Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias
Award, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Legion d’Honneur and 29 honorary degrees.