Vint Cerf

Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.

Cerf is the codesigner of the TCP/IP protocol, the communications protocol that gave birth to the Internet and which is commonly used today.

Vint on the Hyperwords Project: “This project is born out of a realizing that the increased digitizing of our world offers both an opportunity and a challenge. As all media enter into the Internet and World Wide Web environments, we need vastly improved infrastructure to manage, link, search, extract, and understand the Niagara of information pouring into the net. The hyperword concept offers an opportunity to harness the information inherent in the net in a far more automatic fashion. Not requiring that links be solely generated by manual effort, hyperwords can automatically stitch meaning into any and all documents. This is still very much an experimental idea. Ambiguity will be a major challenge to overcome, for example. Nonetheless, I think this out of the box concept is well worth exploring and strongly endorse the efforts put forward in this proposal to do just that.”
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