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Born June 13, 1934 (age 90) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (2007) • Draper Prize (2001)
Subjects Of Study computer network • packet-switched network
Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American computer scientist
Robert Kahn
American computer scientist
Lawrence Roberts
American computer scientist
Computer interface pioneer Douglas EngelbartEngelbart holding a video conference on the right side of the computer screen while working on a document with a remote collaborator during a 1968 computer conference in San Francisco, California.
Douglas Engelbart
American inventor
Paul Baran
American electrical engineer
J.C.R. Licklider
American scientist
John Warner Backus
American mathematician
Ray Tomlinson
American computer engineer
Allen Newell
American computer scientist
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
American social scientist
Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
J. Presper Eckert
American engineer
John Cocke
American mathematician and computer scientist
Jack Kilby
American engineer
John B. Goodenough
American physicist
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician

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