Fathers of the Internet

J.C.R. Licklider

Vinton Cerf : 1943

  • degree in Mathematics from Stanford University
  • Systems Engineer at IBM (QUIKTRAN)
  • 1968 – 1972 : University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles (from MS to PhD)
  • 1969 : graduate student in Professor Leonard Kleinrock’s data packet networking group at UCLA (ARPANET)
  • 1972 – 1976 : Assistant Professor at Stanford University ; DARPA scientist
  • 1992 : Cofounder of the Internet Society
  • 1982 – 1986 : Vice President at MCI Digital Information Services (MCI Mail)
  • 1988 : Fellow of IEEE
  • 1994 : Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
  • 1996 : Award “SIGCOMM”
  • 1996 : Award “Yuri Rubinsky Memorial”
  • 1996 : Certificate of Merit from The Franklin Institute
  • 1997 : Award “National Medal of Technology”
  • 1999 – 2007 : Board Member of ICANN
  • 2000 : Award “Living Legend Medal” from the Library of Congress
  • 2000 : Fellow of the Computer History Museum
  • 2000 : Fellow of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
  • 2004 : Award “Tuning”
  • 2005 : Award “Presidential Medal of Freedom”
  • 2006 : Award “National Inventors Hall of Fame”
  • 2006 : Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC)
  • 2008 : Award “Japan Prize”
  • 2008 : Worshipful Company of Information Technologists; Freedom of the City of London
  • 2008 : Honorary membership in the Yale Political Union
  • 2010 : Commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development
  • 2011 : Fellow of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI)
  • 2011 : Distinguished Fellow of British Computer Society

Robert W. Taylor : 1932

  • 1954 – 1964 : University of Texas at Austin (from undergraduate to master)
  • 1961 – 1965 : Researcher and program manager at NASA
  • 1965 – 1966 : Deputy to Ivan Sutherland at ARPA
  • 1966 – 1969 : Director of ARPA’s Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO)
  • 1970 – 1983 : Founder and Manager of the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC
  • 1984 – 1996 : Founder and Manager of Digital Equipment Corporation’s Systems Research Center
  • 1999 : Award “National Medal of Technology”
  • 2004 : Award “Draper Prize by the National Academy of Engineering”

Leonard Kleinrock

Tim Berner-Lee : 1955

  • 1973 – 1976 : Studies at the The Queen’s College, Oxford
  • 1976 – 1980 : Software engineer at Plessey Telecommunications and at D.G.Nash Ltd
  • 1980 : Independent contractor at CERN
  • 1980 – 1984 : Design Lead at John Poole’s Image Computer Systems
  • 1984 – 1994 : Scientist at CERN
  • 1989 : Proposal for an information management system (HTTP) at CERN
  • 1991 : Public presentation of the CERN web server at Hypertext 91
  • 1994 – 2004 : Professor at the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • 1994 : Founder of W3C at MIT
  • 1994 : Member of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame
  • 1995 : Award “ACM Software System”
  • 1995 : Award “Young Innovator of the Year” from the Kilby Foundation
  • 2001 : Patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust
  • 2001 : Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 : Fellow Award of the Computer History Museum
  • 2004 : Award “Millennium Technology Prize of Finland”
  • 2004 : Professor in Computer Science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, England
  • 2004 : Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
  • 2007 : Award “Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate”
  • 2007 : Order of Merit
  • 2008 :Award “IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell”
  • 2009 : Foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
  • 2009 : Award “Webby for Lifetime Achievement”
  • 2011 : Award “Mikhail Gorbachev”
  • 2011 : IEEE Intelligent Systems’ AI’s Hall of Fame

Ivan Edward Sutherland

Douglas C. Engelbart :1925

  • 1948 : Electrical Engineering Studies at Oregon State College
  • 1948 – 1951 : Ames Research Center, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (forerunner of NASA)
  • 1952 – 1955 : University of California, Berkeley (from MS to PhD)
  • 1956 : Assistant Professor at Berkeley
  • 1957 – 1977 : Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
  • 1962 : Report “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework”
  • 1963 : Creation of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at SRI
  • 1967 – 1970 : patent for the computer mouse, licensed later to Apple
  • 1968 : The Mother of all Demos : (NLS = oN-Line system)
  • 1977 : SRI is sold to Tymshare
  • 1978 : Closing of ARC for lack of funding
  • 1989 : Founder of the Bootstrap Institute
  • 1998 : Founder of the Doug Engelbart Institute
  • 1995 : Award “Yuri Rubinsky Memorial”
  • 1996 : Award “Franklin Institute’s Certificate of Merit”
  • 1997 : Award “Lemelson-MIT Prize
  • 1998 : Award “ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement”
  • 1999 : Award “Benjamin Franklin Medal”
  • 2000 : Award “National Medal of Technology”
  • 2001 : Award “British Computer Society’s Lovelace Medal”
  • 2005 : Award “Norbert Wiener Award”; Fellow of the Computer History Museum
  • 2005 : National Science Foundation grant to fund the open source HyperScope
  • 2011 : IEEE Intelligent Systems’ AI’s Hall of Fame

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