Dr. Vinton Cerf - Internet, Infinity and Beyond

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On Wednesday the 8th of March 2007, Dr. Vinton G. Cerf presented “Internet, Infinity and beyond” at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Dr. Cerf’s presentation was part of the official launch of Hear and Say WorldWide.

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced Internet-based products and services from Google. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.

Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, he helped to guide corporate strategy development from a technical perspective. Previously, he served as MCI's senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks, including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.

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. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet.

New Realm Media was one of the major sponsors of Dr. Cerf’s presentation and managed the media, marketing and Press conference aspects of Dr. Cerf’s seminar. New Realm Media proudly continues to support the Hear and Say Centre. It is with great pleasure that we present Dr. Cerf’s seminar on this site.

Part of my motivation for being here in Brisbane as Dimity alluded to. My family has a very, very close connection with the technology that Professor Clarke developed so many years ago. My wife has two cochlear implants one ten years ago and one last year, and it has been life transforming for her.

You can't quite imagine how aggressive this woman has been. The best way to put it is that "no decibel will escape undetected" and if we ever manage to get around to writing a biography it will be titled "I heard that" because for months that's what we heard from Sigrid repeatedly, "I heard that!". We would take the dog out for a walk she would point out every bird that she detected in the trees.

This is a truly miraculous technology and it teaches you something about what it means to be living in the 21st-century, when this technology is considered a standard practice as opposed to an experiment.

When Professor Clarke sent me his biography or someone may be Dimity sent it to me on his behalf, I read it with great interest and discovered that the dates at which major milestones occurred in the story of the cochlear implant matched ironically many of the important dates in the development of the Internet.

1969 when Professor Clarke began his work is the same year that the predecessor to the Internet something called the ARPANET was developed and I had a personal involvement in connecting computers up to that network.

1982 was in another important date in his work. 1982 was the year that we decided that we would force the TCP/IP protocols on everyone who was connected to any of the US defence department networks and insist that they had to switch over to the TCP/IP protocols.

So there were a whole series of milestones which resonated with me because of the adjacency in time, although at the time I was not aware of the work that Dr. Clark had done.

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