Interview: Vint Cerf

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 26th Aug 2007 20:31 UTC, submitted by SReilly

The BBC has interviewed Vint Cerf. "Vint Cerf is known as one of the founder fathers of the internet and played a key role in the development of the protocols which underpin the global net. He was a founding member of the Internet Society and is Google's Chief Internet Evangelist."

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Snapping up the talent

by jessta (3.76) on Mon 27th Aug 2007 11:57 UTC

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Is there a 'founding father' of some kind of computer related technology that isn't employed by Google?

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RE: Snapping up the talent

by binarycrusader (3.6) on Mon 27th Aug 2007 13:05 UTC in reply to "Snapping up the talent"

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Yep. Look at a bunch of folks that work at Sun, like James Gosling. The engineers that work at nVidia are great examples too.

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by BBlalock (2) on Mon 27th Aug 2007 13:57 UTC in reply to "RE: Snapping up the talent"

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Here's a revised version of the question:

Is there a computer related technology with none of it's founders employed by Google?

PS. Anyone who refers to Al Gore in this thread will be instantly banned from Bbbzzzaassshhhhhh.... SIGNAL LOST

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RE[3]: Snapping up the talent

by binarycrusader (3.6) on Mon 27th Aug 2007 16:13 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Snapping up the talent"

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...and my answer remains the same.

Look at the inventors of the transistor, ethernet, 3d technology, etc.

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RE[3]: Snapping up the talent

by Kroc (3.64) on Mon 27th Aug 2007 18:25 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Snapping up the talent"

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Charles Babbage wasn't employed by Google, nor Alan Turing - of course when Google Time Machine is invented...

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RE: Snapping up the talent

by Soulbender (3.12) on Tue 28th Aug 2007 05:08 UTC in reply to "Snapping up the talent"

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Yes, plenty.

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IPv6

by KenJackson (3.48) on Mon 27th Aug 2007 19:23 UTC

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With its 128 bits of address space ..., there will be ample address space for the foreseeable future.

Statements like that are almost always infamously short sighted. But in this case, it seems like an exaggerated understatement.

My rough math suggests there will be 6.7E23 addresses per square meter of the earth's surface. We could even reserve a good portion of the total for the Moon, Mars and elsewhere.

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RE: IPv6

by sbergman27 (3.68) on Tue 28th Aug 2007 23:32 UTC in reply to "IPv6"

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I've noticed a trend. With IPv6, 64 bit filesystems, and 48 bit memory addressing (expandable to 64 bit), the industry has finally gotten past its earlier "let's implement this hack to add 4 bits and increase the maximum by a factor of 16" roots.

Hard to believe it took so many decades for us to figure out that resources, and resource requirements, are increasing in a geometric fashion. ;-)

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