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TCP/IP Inventor Vinton Cerf Featured in New National Inventors Hall of Fame Video

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 1, 2025 by itnerd

Vinton G. Cerf, a National Inventors Hall of Fame® Inductee and renowned inventor of transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP), is being featured in a long-form video about his inspiring innovations, life and legacy produced by the Hall of Fame in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The video is now available to view here:

Cerf was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006 for his co-invention (with Robert Kahn) of the architecture of the internet and the software known as the transmission control protocol/internet protocol, or TCP/IP, that allows supercomputers and our everyday devices to share the internet.