Test Edit, Present & Future

Date:      April 15, 2005

Location: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va

Synopsis:

Are we really living in a more risky world? What is the most likely future impact of such “risks” on businesses, investment strategies, and society as a whole? The 2005 Symposium will explore these topics as well as the shifting burdens of risk and the potential for new risks, both expected and unforeseen. We are fortunate to have two extraordinarily talented scholars and prolific authors participating in this year’s program—Yale’s James Speth, Author of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, and Harvard’s Niall Ferguson, Author of The Cash Nexus, Empire, and Colossus. Both scholars have strong and well-formed perspectives—environmental and political—regarding risk. This year’s program also includes an equally outstanding group of scholar practitioners, including Ed Breen, Tyco’s Chairman and CEO and driver of its remarkable recent turnaround; Julian Robertson, legendary investor/hedge fund industry founder and Chairman/Founder of Tiger Management; and Richard Tadler, Managing Director of TA Associates, a highly successful private equity house specializing in technology firms.

Following a groundbreaking ceremony for the future home of the McIntire School of Commerce and lunch, CMIT participants will reconvene for a thought-provoking session with Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet. Dr. Cerf will present his views on the evolution of the Internet as well as the risks, challenges and opportunities going forward.

Agenda

Speaker:

Vinton G. Cerf

Vinton G. Cerf is senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, Dr. Cerf is responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. In the fast moving world of telecommunications and Internet technology development, technical capabilities can have a critical impact on the success of corporate business strategies including product and service development, infrastructure investment and strategic acquisitions and partnerships.

Previously, Dr. Cerf served as senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.

Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Dr. Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Dr. Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet.

Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Dr. Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.

During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Dr. Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.

Dr. Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Dr. Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Dr. Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Dr. Cerf served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state and industry committees focused on cyber-security. Dr. Cerf sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger Shakespeare Library, Gallaudet University, the MCI Foundation, the MarcoPolo Foundation, Avanex Corporation and the ClearSight Systems Corporation. Dr. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the National Medal of Science from Tunisia, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal.

In December, 1994, People magazine identified Dr. Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."

In addition to his work on behalf of MCI and the Internet, Dr. Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict." and made a special guest appearance on the program in May 1998. Dr. Cerf has appeared on television programs NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger. Dr. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.

Dr. Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Brooklyn Polytechnic; and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Dr. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.