Google’s Chief Evangelist in conversation with Toby Walsh
At first we called it ‘inter-networking’ but it took too long to say.
A “digital dark age” is looming unless a sophisticated regime for curating, preserving and accessing our data is established, says the ‘father of the internet’, Vint Cerf.
Google's VP and Chief Evangelist, talked with UNSW Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Toby Walsh in July 2018 to a packed auditorium at UNSW Sydney.
Watch him describe the early days of the Net like a colourful folk yarn and hear is warnings on the foreboding digital dark age.
Google's Vint Cerf in conversation with Toby Walsh was presented by UNSW Engineering and Google Australia.
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Vint Certf and Toby Walsh speaking on stage
Vint Cerf
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google and contributes to global policy development and the continued spread of the Internet. Widely known as one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet,’ Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and on the faculty of Stanford University.
Cerf served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007 and has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995. Cerf is also a Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the International Engineering Consortium. President Obama appointed him to the US National Science Board in 2012
Toby Walsh (Host)
Toby Walsh is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW Sydney and CSIRO Data61. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many other bodies on this topic. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science, and was named on the international Who's Who in AI list of influencers. He has authored three books on AI for a general audience, the most recent entitled Machines Behaving Badly: the morality of AI.