Google Hires Net's 'Founding Father'
Vint Cerf will be "Chief Internet Evangelist" at Google, a press release says (good headline, even for a press release: "Cerf's Up At Google"). From the release:
"Vint Cerf is clearly one of the great technology leaders of our time," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt of Cerf, who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols that were used to develop the Internet's underlying architecture. . . .
Cerf will continue his leadership in the Internet community, and help Google build network infrastructure, architectures, systems, and standards for the next generation of Internet applications.
Says blogger Om Malik, who is now even more convinced that Google is trying to build GoogleNet: "The kind of stuff that forces Steve Ballmer to throw chairs at office walls."