Google Hires Vint Cerf

hsuwh writes "Google has hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf away from MCI as its "Chief Internet Evangelist". "He is one of the most important people alive today," said [Google CEO Eric] Schmidt, who has been friends with Cerf for more than 20 years. "Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google.""

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snark

[ReformedExCon]

Boy, that Internet thing just isn't catching on. I guess we need someone to really spread the word about it!

Chief Internet Evangelist? Really?

Re:snark

[hotdiggitydawg]

You bet! Cerf's up, dude...

And I'm sure nobody's cracked that joke before...

Re:snark

[Red Flayer]

"Chief Internet Evangelist? Really?"

Especially the "Chief" part... this implies a whole team of internet evangelists.

I guess Pat Robertson is diversifying his revenue sources...

Re:snark

[thuh Freak]

Is there anyone who doesn't know what the Internet is?

I'm not entirely sure, but I heard a guy on t.v. say they got them working on computers now.

maybe, in order to understand Internet we have to look at the word itself: Internet. Basically it's made up of two separate words: 'inte' and 'rnet'. What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and so is Internet.

a case of mistaken identity?

[ChipMonk]

Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen.

Are they sure they didn't hire Al Gore by mistake?

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Poor metaphor

[Red Flayer]

"I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google."

I can only think of one thing that people typically use the phrase "shovel out" with... and it begins with sh-.

I sure hope, for Google's sake, that he shovels out something else.

Re:Poor metaphor

[outsider007]

just hide that shovel after your out of ideas because steve ballmer is coming to f***ing bury you.

Re:Vint

[Fastball]

who?

Diesel.

Re:Do they have a strategy behind this?

[richie2000]

I think they've taken Nokia's slogan and modified it a bit:

Google - Collecting people

love or hate?

[jshaped]

I forget, do we love or hate google?

(are they becoming an unstoppable giant?)

Re:love or hate?

[Anonymous Coward]

Simple rules for Slashdot Slashbots:

We love Google. Always.

We love Apple. Always.

We love Linux past the point of sanity. There is nothing which couldn't be made better with Linux.

We love the FCC when they're regulating spectrum, except when they're actually selling a usage license. We hate the FCC if they're doing anything outside of that, like sneezing.

We hate Microsoft, always. If somebody in Redmond catches a cold,we gloat. If Microsoft releases a bug patch, it's an example of shoddy work (Whereas bug patches in open source are CLEARLY an example of high-quality work! No double standard there.).

We moderately dislike the Democrats, but since they're the party of opposition to Sat^H^H^Hthe Republicans, we champion them like they were Gods incarnate (Unless Libertarianism comes up, of course).

Novell is evil, except when they're doing stuff with Linux. Or against Microsoft.

IBM is totally awesome. Except where POWER chips and Linux aren't concerned, there they suck.

Anything but X86 is the best instruction set ever. Except for IA64, which was also made by Intel, so it sucks. X86-64, because it was made by AMD, rules however, and fixes all of the problems anybody has ever had with anything remotely close to X86.

Intel is always expensive crap. Except where the Pentium M comes into play. There they're just expensive.

AMD is always cheap and kickass. Except for the FX chips, which aren't cheap. And the Turion, which is just cheap.

NVidia is evil for not releasing open source drivers for Linux. NVidia is saintly for releasing solid support for Linux.

ATI is saintly for releasing open source drivers for Linux. ATI is evil for not releasing solid support for Linux.

Any mention of BSD is a troll, unless the story explicitly mentions BSD, because mentioning another Open Source Operating System draws glory from the wonder that is Linux.

And so forth and so on...

Re:love or hate?

[Cyrgo]

Wait 'til they hire Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and/or Linus Torvalds...

Re:love or hate?

[ChocoBean]

Google is our ally. Google has always been our ally.

Microsoft is the enemy. We have always been at war with Microsoft, and Google is our ally.

Re:Wikipedia link

[justforaday]

Vint Cerf had sex with Al Gore?!? : o

The guy makes terrible puns

[keshto]

Look at the photo with the WaPo article (hint: look at the license plate).

Re:Wikipedia link

[josh roulston]

"Vint Cerf is also working on the Interplanetary Protocol, which will be a new standard to communicate from planet to planet, which will be radio/laser communications that are highly tolerant to signal degradation."—Wikipedia

Are you sure you mean "new world order"?

Google TLD?

[op12]

From the article: "Cerf will remain chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the oversight agency for Internet domain names."

So how long before we get a .google TLD? or maybe .goo :)

Re:Google TLD?

[ScrewMaster]

.GOO? But wouldn't that be more appropriate for ... oh, forget it.

Re:Google PBS commercial

[Mignon]

a word typed into the Google screen ... and switched to a video clip of that phenomena.

Does "Jenna" qualify as natural phenomena?

Great!

[Howlett]

Just what we need, another looser claming to have invented the internet. Everyone knows that Microsoft invented the internet.

Re:VC, the MCI Spam Supporter

[halivar]

How can anyone hire an MCI (aka Worldcom, aka UUNET) spam supporter? Being with the worst spammy ISP ever should basically make you unemployable.

Yeah, but you get dispensations for doing cool things like inventing the internet.

Re:Do they have a strategy behind this?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, but it's better than having a bunch of untalented people trying to come up with an idea.

Now we know the final boss

[jeffimix]

"I beat the internet, the end guy was hard"

Next step: Google Trading Cards

[dr7greenthumb]

I'll trade you a Vint Cerf for 2 DBA's and a Project Manager.

Re:He did what?

[HackingYodel]

To treat this guy as a god because 30 years ago he figured out that if you gave a box an address you could send packets to it ... my god, what a fucking genius! ...mumble.../rant

I'm with ya! Like somebody uses TCP/IP these days, good God people!
I can't belive the nerve of these losers to compare this acient crap to all YOUR Earth shaking inventions and contributions to computer science. I shudder to think of a world devoid of your greatness.

Re:Wikipedia link

[Xarius]

Yes

Yeah, here's a Wikipedia link about that:

[Headcase88]

Kharma Whoring

I have a twisted sense of humour, I suppose.

Mother of the Internet?

[tushar]

So if they can find the mother of the internet, will Google have the chance to create the Internets that we heard of?

Re:Do they have a strategy behind this?

[clambake]

The more you know the luckier you get.

Vegas loves people like you.

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Re:Do they have a strategy behind this?

[tonyr60]

If their strategy is to wind up Microsoft then this should help. I can imagine that Ballmer will not be happy, but the vendor responsible for supplying office furniture to Microsoft Corporate office may be.

Microsoft twist on this

[SuperKendall]

All you can do is try to assemable the greatest group(s) of already provably inventive poeple you can find, put them in a positive, stimulating environment, and incent them to come up with something great.

That is what Google is doing. That is exactly NOT what Microsoft, HP, et. al. are doing.

Actually not true, Microsof thas spent some time doing exactly the same thing - hiring really smart people and putting them in Microsoft R&D. I can't thnk of specifics, but it seemed like it was people from all fields...

However Microsoft R&D has produced almost nothing of practical value. So, the suspicious mind starts to wonder if perhaps all Microsoft R&D is there for is to keep these smart groups of people from producing something outside of Microsoft!