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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.""
Vinton Cerf, father of the internet
Do they have a strategy behind this?
Of course -- to make money for their investors.
Or are they merely collecting people and figuring out what to do with them later? From the outside looking in, it sure seems like the latter.
Google has always been fairly secretive about their dealings, even after they went public -- it's just that now they are releasing stuff a lot sooner than they were in the past.
Yeah, I'm sure that they are "just collecting" people but I have a feeling that they are being put to good use. Dodgeball (one of the collected items) is likely going to be put to excellent use for business reviews and frequency of visits -- especially when they figure out a way to tie it to everything else.
If you haven't seen their recent additions of Google Maps showing locations of you, and your friends' check-ins, I suggest that you do that.
The possibilities are scary.
Even funnier since I've seen Vint himself correct the Al Gore thing in a talk saying that Gore does deserve credit for getting the early internet funding that it needed. Vint even presented him an award.
;)
But yea, the joke is funnier then the truth by far
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
Apple's had them also. Guy Kawasaki was one of their big evangelists a few years back.
Their role is to get the word out about their project/product/concept and turn sceptics into true believers by flooding them with positive information about it. Is there anyone who doesn't know what the Internet is?
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
Yeah, I can't imagine anyone has thought of that joke before...
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http://global.mci.com/us/enterprise/insight/cerfs
This guy is amazing
He may be, but not for naming it (why "IP"?), and the author clearly doesn't understand the difference between different network layers.
"radio/laser communications that are highly tolerant to signal degradation" is data link layer and below. Cerf's work most likely is taking place at/above that or the transport layer. I'm not really sure what work he could be doing that NASA hasn't already dealt with themselves- and the massive time delay seems to be a problem better addressed on a per-protocol basis.
It's also likely a problem we won't need to solve for many, many years. Do we really need to give astronauts on the moon or Mars access to websites? No. When we do, it seems like a problem most easily solved by a high bandwidth stream, by monitoring what stuff is popular and simply throwing it at the planet, where it is cached. Obviously interaction will be impossible, which means much of the web becomes useless...
Please help metamoderate.
Vint has released a statement on the Google Blog.
you sound like you're talking about microsoft research
Well, all except where you say "this has worked".