Vint Cerf
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Google adds automatic captions to YouTube (AFP)...videos uploaded to the site. "Google believes that the world's information should be accessible to everyone," said Vint Cerf, a Google vice president who has been described as the "Father of the Internet." "One of the big challenges of... In this article: Google, YouTube, Vint Cerf, Agence France Presse, All rights reserved, American Association, University of California at Los Angeles, National Association of the Deaf, and Yale |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 3 days ago
Google adds automatic captions to YouTube
...holds the title of "Chief Internet Evangelist" at Google. Speaking at Google's Washington office, Cerf noted that he has a "great personal interest" in the closed caption capability. Cerf, 66, is hearing impaired and has been wearing hearing...
In this article: Google, YouTube, University of California at Los Angeles, Yale, University of New South Wales, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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PC World: Latest Technology News | October 22, 2009
FCC Takes First Step Toward Net Neutrality Rules
On the other side are 28 digital rights and consumer groups, including Free Press and Public Knowledge, Internet pioneers including Vint Cerf and David Reed, and top executives of Web-based companies, including Google, Amazon.com, eBay and...
In this article: FCC, Robert McDowell, Web applications, Comcast, Barack Obama, U.S., and Peer-to-peer
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BBC News | 2 days ago
YouTube gets automatic subtitles
...algorithms will match the text to the words as they are spoken. Vint Cerf, vice president at Google, is widely recognised as a founding father of the internet. He is also hard of hearing and has worn a hearing aid since the age of...
In this article: YouTube, Google, National Geographic, and North Africa
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The Register | November 05, 2009
Vint Cerf mods Android for interplanetary interwebs
...5th November 2009 18:40 GMT OpenMobileSummit Internet founding father cum Google evangelist Vint Cerf is working to bring his interplanetary interwebs protocol to mobile networks here on earth. In 1998, working in tandem with...
In this article: NASA, Speed of light, International Space Station, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Google, Cisco, Mars, and Europe
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Google demi-god backs shared mobile airwaves
...21:23 GMT OpenMobileSummit After plugging Google's open source Android OS into the interplanetary interwebs, net demi-god Vint Cerf has called for a mobile world where the airwaves are shared by multiple wireless outfits. He's well...
In this article: Google, Federal Communications Commission, Android OS, US, Mountain View, San Francisco, California, and Wall Street Journal
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Description from Wikipedia:
Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (pronounced: /ˈsɜrf/; born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist who is the "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'." His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Cerf has worked for Google as its Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist since September 2005. In this role he has become well known for his predictions on how technology will affect future society, encompassing such areas as artificial intelligence, environmentalism, the advent of IPv6 and the transformation of the television industry and its delivery model.
- Birth Date:
- June 23, 1943
- Birthplace:
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Citizenship:
- American
- Field:
- Computer science
- Known for:
- Internet Society
- TCP/IP
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