Dear all, Don't miss the lecture and pass the word..Have a nice day :-)

Dear All,

 

Please be advised that we are having a very eminent visitor who is coming to the bibliotheca Alexandrian  on Sunday May 30th and he has kindly accepted to give us a lecture.

The person is Vint Cerf. If you don't know who is Vint Cerf, he is the senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI, he is widely known as the Father of the Internet, as he is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. I am attaching his biography below.

 

The lecture information is

Date:  Sunday 30th of May at 18:00

Title: "All the world's libraries at our fingertips"

Venue: Middle Hall Conference Center

 Bibliotheca Alexandrina : Alexandria, Egypt

 

He will discuss Internet and digital libraries along with the effects of search engines and unstructured data. And some speculation about Sir Tim Berners-Lee's semantic web. So very much in what we are working on !

P.S. Sir Tim Berners-Lee's is the inventor of the World Wide Web, in case you do not know.

I guess that this is a chance that no one of us should miss. So please book the day for attending this lecture. Also please tell your colleagues who are in the field of IT. It would have been a great chance for students, unfortunately it is exams time. So spread the word among your friends who have graduated. The timing of the lecture is after working hours, so it should be okay for them.

 

Biography:

Vint Cerf is senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, Cerf is responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. In the fast moving world of telecommunications and Internet technology development, technical capabilities can have a critical impact on the success of corporate business strategies including product and service development, infrastructure investment and strategic acquisitions and partnerships.

From 1994-2003, Cerf served as senior vice president of architecture and technology, moving to a strategic role in mid-2003.

 Widely known as one of the "Father 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 partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet.  

Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.

 During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.  

Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf served as a member of the U.S.

Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state and industry committees

focused on cyber-security. Cerf sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger Shakespeare Library,

Gallaudet University, the MarcoPolo Foundation, Digex, Incorporated, Avanex Corporation, Nuance Corporation, CoSine Corporation and the

Hynomics Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts

and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.

 Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship,

Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander

Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of

the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems

Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the

Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award,

the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership

Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal.

 In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."  

In addition to his work on behalf of WorldCom and the Internet, Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's

Earth: Final Conflict." and made a special guest appearance on the program in May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television programs NextWave

with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished

visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet

Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science

from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of

Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason

University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.  

His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.