Vinton Cerf, the "father of the Internet," is about to retire.

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Computer scientist Vinton Cerf, dubbed the "Father of the Internet," will retire and leave his position as Vice President and Internet Communications Specialist at Google next week.

This information was announced at the Open Frontier conference organized by the Laude Institute. Professor Dave Patterson of the University of California, Berkeley, acknowledged Cerf's contributions and called on attendees to give a round of applause to celebrate the career of the 83-year-old scientist.

Cerf and his colleague Robert Kahn are considered the architects who laid the foundation for the modern Internet. From the 1970s, they developed and popularized TCP/IP, a set of rules that allows different computer networks to connect and exchange data.

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Cerf's contributions have been recognized with numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Turing Award, one of the most prestigious awards in computer science.

Mr. Cerf joined Google in 2005 and has worked at the company for over 20 years. At the conference, he and many other technology experts discussed how to build sustainable open-source software systems.

According to Cerf, the development of artificial intelligence agents—that is, software capable of acting autonomously and coordinating with each other—will force technology companies to build common protocols. These standards will enable AI systems developed by different entities to interact accurately and securely.

He argued that natural languages like English can be misleading because they contain many ambiguous elements. Therefore, AI agents will need clearer communication rules to ensure they correctly understand the agreed-upon task.

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