Father Of The Web Gets Fresh
When Vint Cerf, the man cited as one of the fathers of the modern-day Internet, sat down for a chat with the State Department's David Gross at the Family Online Safety Institute conference on Thursday, something seemed amiss.
Before answering questions formulated by Gross, the agency's communications and information policy coordinator, Google's chief Internet evangelist noted that his last name is spelled C-E-R-F, not C-E-R-T, as the gigantic projection screens on either side of the stage avowed.
The good humored Cerf made a crack about whether his mouth needed freshening (Certs is a popular breath mint manufactured by Cadbury-Adams). After a bit of audience laughter, the session commenced. Organizers promised that they spelled his name correctly in the program.
Read more coverage from the FOSI summit in Technology Daily's PM Edition.
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