Call Number: OH 191
Interviewee: Cerf, Vinton G., 1943-
Interviewer: Judy E. O'Neill
Repository: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Description: Transcript, 36 pp.
Abstract: Following a brief overview of his background, Cerf describes his involvement with the ARPA network, including his work for the Network Measurement Center while a graduate student at UCLA, and his relationships with Bolt Beranek and Newman, Robert Kahn, Lawrence Roberts, and the Network Working Group. Other topics include: various influences on the development of the TCP/IP protocol, IPTO funding while he was at Stanford University, his decision in 1976 to become a program manager for networking projects at IPTO, and the military use of IPTO networking projects. This interview was recorded as part of a research project on the influence of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on the development of computer science in the United States.
Subject(s):
United States. -- Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques Office. -- Network Measurement Center ; United States. -- Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques Office ; Roberts, Lawrence G. ; Kahn, Robert E. ; Federal aid to research -- United States ; Computer science -- United States -- Research ; Computer networks -- United States -- Research ; Cerf, Vincent G., 1943- ; Bolt, Beranek and Newman, inc. ; ARPANET (Computer network) ; United States. -- Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques Office. -- Network Working Group
Citation: Vinton G. Cerf, OH 191. Oral history interview by Judy E. O'Neill, 24 April 1990, Reston, Virginia. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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