Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

male
TCP/IP, Google employee, Internetpioneer, founding fathers of the Internet, Internet history, internet…chief Internet Evangelist, EFF Pioneer Award recipient, co-inventor of the Internet, Internet Evangelist, VP + chief Internet evangelist at Google
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly...
Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen

male, 38 years old (Los Altos, California, United States)
Opsware, web browser, Netscape, mosaic, ning, blogger…internet, Internet history, Internetpioneer
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer...
Jon Postel

Jon Postel

male, deceased (1998)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Internetpioneer, IANA, ARPANET, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robustness Principle…Internet Society, internet, computer pioneer
Jonathan Bruce Postel made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is...
Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn

male, 70 years old
TCP/IP, Turing Award laureate, Internetpioneer, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Transmission Control Protocol, Internet Protocol…Internet history, computer pioneer, internet
Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton G. Cerf created the IP protocol, the technologies used to...
Steve Crocker

Steve Crocker

male, 65 years old
Trusted Information Systems, The Aerospace Corporation, University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, Request for Comments, University of California, Los Angeles…Internet Architecture Board, IEEE Internet Award, Internet Award, Internetpioneer, internet
Steve Crocker (born October 15, 1944 in Pasadena, California) is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and...

Lawrence Roberts

male
scientist, Prince of Asturias Award winner, ARPANET, ARPA, Vinton Cerf, Lawrence G. Roberts…Internetpioneer, Internet history
Lawrence G. Roberts has been described as one of the four persons most closely associated with the birth of the Internet, the other three being...
Paul Mockapetris

Paul Mockapetris

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris, ARPANET, Request for Comments, Information Sciences Institute, domain name system…internet, Internetpioneer
Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris is the inventor of the Domain Name System. In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System (DNS) architecture in RFCs 882 and 883...
Philip Emeagwali

Philip Emeagwali

male, 55 years old
computer scientist, IMF, United States dollar, supercomputer, search engines, Connection Machine…Internetpioneer
Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian-born computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE,...
Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush

male, deceased (1974)
computer pioneer, engineer, analog computer, Futurologist, Information scientist, Tufts University alumni…Internetpioneer
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 - June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work on analog computing, his...