Vint Cerf

Moonbiter · #1 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 08:41 AM

On the 19th of November I'm meeting Vinton Gray Cerf, one of the reasons we're here today.

In the IT world it's a bit like meeting Elvis. I'm completely shellshocked.

Xandax · #2 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 09:01 AM

This is me being envious

Kipi · #3 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 02:11 PM

You lucky....!!

Does he keep a lesson to you, or what kind of thing it will be

Siberys · #4 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 02:20 PM

I just hope he's not a prick like Bill Gates. I attended a seminar for my college up in Indianapolis for computer programmers, and he made a bit of a speech there. I met him afterwards, didn't exactly get to say anything, but with the conversation he was having with other people, he did have quite the "I am holier-than-thou with computers" attitude.

Moonbiter · #5 (**permalink**) 09-09-2007, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Kipi

You lucky....!!

Does he keep a lesson to you, or what kind of thing it will be

My workplace is hosting the annual Rosing Awards. In the IT world up here on the reef it's a bit like the Oscars. Fredrik Rosing Bull patented the first functional hole card-machine(I'm sorry, I can't find any better English word for it) in 1921. Vint Cerf is going to be the key lecturer during the awards. To say that I'm a little bit starstruck would be a gross understatement. Apart from being practically stone deaf, he's also a sterling guy, according to the people I've spoken to. Since I started working for the Norwegian Computer Society just 14 days ago, I've been completely blown away. Here's a tip: We hosted a seminar last week with Fredrick Marckini. He's THE authority on search engines and Internet marketing, and one of the best speakers I've encountered. If he's in your neighbourhood, go see him.

Xandax · #6 (**permalink**) 09-09-2007, 03:55 AM

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the first functional hole card-machine(I'm sorry, I can't find any better English word for it) in 1921. <snip>

Punch card I believe is the English word for it.

Chanak · #7 (**permalink**) 09-17-2007, 09:53 PM

Hole-punch.

Moonbiter · #8 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 03:55 AM

Well, I met him, and it was great! He was such a laidback, cool guy I couldn't believe it! I spent almost half an hour informally discussing SF/Fantasy authors and wines with him, after which I got his card and was asked to get in contact.

The speech he held was brilliant, but sadly too short. I could have listened to him for 5 hours. He did the entire thing as a showpiece of general information, and luckily refrained from technical gobbeltygook except for a short time when he explained the protocols that he's working on to allow interplanetary use of the internet.

He's "a bit" more broad in his perspective than the rest of us "earthlings," but he still reads cool books!

Fiberfar · #9 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 07:49 AM

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He's "a bit" more broad in his perspective than the rest of us "earthlings," but he still reads cool books!

Don't forget that he looks a bit like Freud, The Architect from Matrix and Dr. Breen from HL2 as well

Loki[D.d.G] · #10 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 07:52 PM

Damn, talk about envy.

Moonbiter · #11 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 02:25 PM

His basic visions are so extreme, yet so close to home, you actually sit there like a slack-jawed village idiot, thinking "why didn't I come up with this?"

Here's a couple of highlights that he predicts (with humour) within the next ten years:

1. Your refridgerator will be in cahoots with you PC. You will get an email/text telling you exactly what is in your fridge, how much is left of it, and how to use it. Your fridge will tell your PC what's in it, and your PC will send you suggestions on what you can make for dinner, and what you need to buy for certain recepies.

2. Your toothbrush will tell your PC what you've been eating, how much you've been working out, and how your general health is. Your PC will then analyze the data based on the internet, and (as Cerf said) sadly communicate with your fridge when it comes to suggesting your diet.

3. Your fridge and your toothbrush will gang up and contact your regular quack via your PC so that a diagnosis can be made before you even walk in for a checkup. "Mister Moonbiter! You are eating way too much red meat, drinking too much Italian wine, and your BMI is a bit over average. Might I suggest..."

Anyone think this is bollocks? I don't.

Ten years, is what he said.

Right now he's working on a protocol that can nullify the 2,5 minute time delay posed by the speed of light between Mars and Earth.

I'm going fishing.

Loki[D.d.G] · #12 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 06:36 PM

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3. Your fridge and your toothbrush will gang up and contact your regular quack via your PC so that a diagnosis can be made before you even walk in for a checkup. "Mister Moonbiter! You are eating way too much red meat, drinking too much Italian wine, and your BMI is a bit over average. Might I suggest..."

Wait till other appliances get in on the act. If you are eating too much fried foods, your stove might collaborate with your PC and refuse to fire up for your next meal.