CS Superheroes

Vinton Cerf

Vinton Cerf was born on June 23, 1943. He one of the founders, along with Robert Kahn, of the Internet. In 2004 both Cerf and Kahn won the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their work on internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet's basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking. He also served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In 2008, he worked with the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) as the chairperson of the Internationalized domain name (IDNAbis).

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Larry Page

Larry Page was born on March 26, 1973. He co-founded Google with Sergey Brin in 1998 while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. By 2005, Larry Page bought Andriod which is now the most used mobile operating system globally. In 2006, Google purchased the most popular website for user-submitted streaming videos, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in stock. In 2015, Page's "Powerful People" profile on the Forbes site states that Google is "the most influential company of the digital era". He also co-founded Alphabet Inc. on October 2, 2015.

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Mark Dean

Mark Dean was born on March 2, 1957. Dean and his engineers created the first one gigahertz computer processor chip in 1999. His work also led to the development of the color PC monitor. In the entirety of his career, Dean holds 20 patents for his various inventions and most of those come from IBM inventions. He also was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and awarded the the Black Engineer of the Year President’s Award in 1997. In 2001, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineers (NAE). In the present day, Mark Dean is the John Fisher Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee.

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