Vinton G. Cerf - Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling 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.
Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, he helped to guide corporate strategy development from a technical perspective. Previously, he served as MCI's senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks, including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.
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. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science," in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens.
Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He 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, Avanex Corporation and the ClearSight Systems 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.
Jack Dorsey - Jack Dorsey is a software architect and businessperson best known as the creator and chariman of Twitter.
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.
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.
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 !
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!
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.
