Vinton Cerf- Birth-1943, Death-Still Alive

Academic Events- U.S. National Medal of Technology, An ACM Alan M. Turing Award, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, The Japan Award, The Franklin Award, Marconi Prize, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, Draper Prize, Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award, SIGCOMM Award, Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award, Harold Pender Award

His education degrees consist of a Bachelor of Science from Stanford, a Masters of Science and a Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA.

Major contributions to Computer Science- Vint Cerf is considered to be one of the fathers of the internet, having been the co-inventor of TCP/IP, having led influential work at DARPA, then at MCI, where he pioneered an email platform called MCI Mail. He was a major part of the development of Internet related data transport and security while he worked with DARPA. He also wrote the communication protocols for the ARPANET, and is working on an interplanetary internet.

Interesting fact- He has about 20+ honorary doctorate degrees all from different schools around the world. I also found it was interesting his first degree wasn't even in Computer Science but rather in science in general.