Q&A: Internet Pioneer Looks Spaceward - BusinessWeek(Internet Service News)

Vint Cerf may be best known for his role in the creation of the Internet, but his earliest professional years were spent in the space industry, during the heady years of the Apollo missions. While Cerf was in high school, his father worked at North American Aviation, a company that over the years created the X-15 rocket plane, the Saturn V rocket, and the Space Shuttle orbiter. In 1976, he went to work for the Advanced Research Projects Agency, now known as DARPA, where he led the development of a series of instructions, or protocols, known as Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), that guide how information travels over the Internet. In late 1997, I started thinking about how much earlier we had started working on the Internet, and only after, in this case, almost 30 years, the work was starting to mature and become significant. The theory was that if we looked into the distant future—say, 100 to 200 years from now—we might see some significant numbers of robotic devices in the remotely controlled scientific stations, in orbit around the surface (of Mars), and maybe even people who might be manning scientific laboratories for some period of time, and they would need fairly elaborate communications, more along the lines of what we have come to use today on the Internet. read more

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