31/03/2020
Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the Internet, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus.
In a Twitter post on March 30, Vint Cerf confirmed his positive for Covid-19 and is recovering.
Also on Twitter, Vint Cerf also attached a video of Last Week Tonight, in which MC John Oliver is criticizing US President Donald Trump about how to handle the pandemic.
Below the post, a slew of celebrities in the tech industry send health wishes to Vint Cerf, including Walt Mossberg, WSJ technology journalist Jeff Dean, Google AI Vice President or Julia Ferraioli, lobbying programming of Google Cloud Platform.
76-year-old Vint Cerf was dubbed the "father" of the Internet when he and Bob Kahn developed the TCP / IP protocol in the 1970s, the standard that served as the foundation for the Internet, helping devices connect and transmit. Data download each other.
In 2004, Vint Cerf was awarded the Turing Award. He has participated in leading and mentoring many Internet-related companies and projects.
In 2005, Vint Cerf joined Google as an Internet evangelist. During this time, he made predictions about how technology will affect future life, including areas such as artificial intelligence, environmentalism, the introduction of IPv6 and transformation. of the television industry.
Since 2010, Vint Cerf has been a Member of the Broadband Digital Development Committee, a United Nations agency with the goal of helping to spread broadband Internet.
In May 2012, Vint Cerf was elected Chairman of the Computer Association, joining the CyberSecurity Advisory Council in August 2013.
It is not clear how Vint Cerf became infected. In the United States, the Covid-19 pandemic situation is very bad. As of March 31, the country is the largest outbreak in the world, with the number of infections exceeding 160,000, including more than 3,100 deaths and more than 5,900 recovering cases.