CMA Presents "Tracking the Internet Into Outer Space"

The Internet is an inescapable reality on Earth, interwoven with business and personal activities of millions of individuals and organizations every hour of every day. It is now evolving into a communication system that will play a key role in advancing the exploration of space.

Vint Cerf is widely acknowledged to be one of the founders of the Internet (with Robert E. Kahn). Please join us as Cerf discusses the "Interplanetary Internet," a deep space communication technology that is tolerant of large time delays and which is a focus of his collaboration with JPL.

After earning a B.S. from Stanford University, Cerf received an M.S. and Ph.D. from UCLA, where he worked with Kahn on ARPANet hardware architecture and the TCP/IP protocol, which they continued to develop after Cerf returned to a faculty position at Stanford. After several years at DARPA, Cerf held senior engineering management positions at MCI. Since 2005, he has been Vice President and "Chief Internet Evangelist" at Google. Cerf has received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; the Living Legend Medal from the Library of Congress; the Japan Prize; the Turing Award; the National Medal of Technology; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

This event is free. All members of the Campus and JPL communities and retirees are welcome. Caltech personnel and guests can access von Kármán Auditorium via the external gate. For more information, please send email to [email protected] or call Kent Frewing, at 818-354-3402.