At the Gov 2.0 Summit, Vinton Cerf of Google, Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, and Facebook's Tim Sparapani discuss how their respective Internet companies provide an open platform on which independent developers can create value online through innovative products and services.
Bio
Vinton G. Cerf
Vint Cerf is a living legend in the tech world. In 2004, with Robert Kahn, he received the Alan M. Turing Award, the highest professional honor in computing, in recognition of their visionary
work and leadership in the development of the Internet. Other honors, again with Robert Kahn, include the US National Medal of Technology, the Japan Prize, and the Presidential Medal of
Freedom. He was the founding president of the Internet Society and served as chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers from 2000 to 2007.
Before joining Google in 2005, Cerf was a senior vice presidentat MCI and a vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. He began his career at IBM and UCLA. He joined the faculty of Stanford University where he co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and network architecture of the Internet. From 1976 to 1982, he was a principal scientist at DARPA, where he managed the Internet and packet communications research programs. He joined MCI in 1982, where he helped develop the commercial MCI Mail service. Cerf has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the International
Engineering Consortium.
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey is a software architect and businessperson best known as the creator and chairman of Twitter. Dorsey is also the CEO of Square. MIT's Technology Review named him (in the Technology Review 35(TR35)) as an outstanding innovator under the age of 35.
John Markoff
John Markoff began writing about technology in 1976 freelancing for a number of publications including the Nation, Mother Jones and Saturday Review. In 1988, he moved to New York to join The New York Times as a reporter for the paper's business section and now writes for the Times from San Francisco where he covers Silicon Valley.
At the Times he broke the story identifying Robert Tappan Morris, son of National Security Agency cryptographer Robert Morris, as the author of what would become known as the Internet worm. Markoff holds degrees from Whitman College in Washington and University of Oregon.
Tim Sparapani
Tim Sparapani is the Director of Public Policy at Facebook. Sparapani is responsible for developing and implementing the company's interaction with the federal, state and local governments and with opinion and policy makers.
Sparapani's specialty is privacy and constitutional law. Prior to joining Facebook, Sparapani was Senior Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he helped advance the constitutional principle of the right to privacy, representing the ACLU before Congress, the Executive Branch and before the media. For the more than four years preceding his time at the ACLU, Sparapani served as an Associate at the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro where he helped clients navigate interconnecting constitutional, statutory, political and policy challenges.
Sparapani holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the law school at the University of Michigan.
Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (seedata transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. They may also provide software packages (such as browsers), e-mail accounts, and a personal Web site or home page. ISPs can host Web sites for businesses and can also build the Web sites themselves. ISPs are all connected to each other through network access points, public network facilities on the Internet backbone.
Another great talk, Vinton Cerf reminds me of the Architect from the Matrix. I hope Hollywood doesn't obscure the way he is remembered in history too much.
That's sounds like a paranoid viewpoint, Dana
I would suggest that for the most part, very few people really care what you have to say on twitter, email, or youtube beyond the possibility that you might be a consumer. After I was no longer with youtube it took a week before any of my 100+ so called "friends" even noticed. The "profit" motive you mention is more like it.
Unless you are planning a crime, or avoiding your taxes, the government will never bother you, I will bet you a fiver on it!
1st all 3 are CIA & govt controlled assets , make no mistake about that !!
Google built the software to censor china and is now using the same draconian
software to censor you tube right , i can not make a mistake in my comment and re-post it or its marked as spam , that is evil and pure control , goggle made you tube corporate tube , i really disrespect them for that , NYT is a govt controlled asset , they have never asked a hard question about any war ,all they do is support the war machine ,Twitter is a plague and govt controlled asset , it sucks life from people , just a another govt entity that is being used to track and trace peoples habits , all in all the 3 tools they have in this video will sell out everyone on the planet for profit at the drop of a hat . worst video yet !
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