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The Orkand Chair Distinguished Lecture Series took place Friday, September 25, 2009, in the UMUC Inn and Conference Center in Adelphi, Maryland.
This year's lecture featured Google's Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Vinton G. Cerf. One of the founders of the Internet and a leader in Internet technologies, Cerf is responsible for identifying new technologies to support the advancement of Google's Internet-based products and services.
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Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since 2005. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new 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.
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. Cerf has received the U.S. National Medal of Technology, the ACM Alan M. Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Japan Prize. Cerf’s professional associations include the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Internet Society, IPv6 Forum, the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee and several national, state and industry committees focused on cyber-security.
Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and PhD in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds numerous honorary doctorate degrees from colleges and universities worldwide.