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Vint Cerf

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q185667&amp;oldid=2520137694" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Turing Award · dated 2004
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q8803&amp;oldid=2529601323" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Transmission Control Protocol
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q95&amp;oldid=2564136400" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q41506&amp;oldid=2564887095" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stanford University · to 1965
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q17144&amp;oldid=2531981575" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Presidential Medal of Freedom · dated 2005
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q81414&amp;oldid=2563526066" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Internet protocol suite

Wikidata describes Vint Cerf as American computer scientist (born 1943).

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