Happy Birthday Vint!! 🎂🎉🎈🎊🥳

On June 23, 2025 11:16:13 AM EDT, "David Bray, PhD via Nnagain" <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dbray_snazzy-ties-peacetech-activity-7342909380545191937-tfmJ/
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>Happy Birthday, Vint Cerf! 🎉 *The Man Who Connected Us All*
>
>There once was a man with snazzy ties galore,
>  Who gave us a network we couldn't ignore.
>With TCP/IP he and his co-creators connected the world,
>  And a banner of connections was forever unfurled.
>
>Keynotes at PeaceTech & The Stimson Center inspiring change,
>  While global leaders listen fully to his ideas & exchange.
>The People-Centered Internet coalition activated to care,
>  Working to ensure tech benefits are equally shared.
>
>My young son thinks Vint conjured the 'Net with a wand,
>  Where magic meets engineering, he's particularly fond!
>"Mr. Vint makes computers talk," he once said with delight,
>  (Though currently my son cares if science videos stream right!)
>
From Commission discussions on data and tech,
>  To casual chats inviting all to dream and reflect,
>Vint's friendship is a gift that keeps giving each day,
>  In this interconnected world you helped pave the way.
>
>Happy Birthday to the most dapper tech genius I know!
>  May your cache always be full, and your latency low!
>
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>[image: vint-david-night-at-the-museum-of-computer-history-2019.jpg]
>[image: vint-cerf-nerf-gun.jpg]
>-- 
>*David Bray, PhD *Principal, LeadDoAdapt Ventures, Inc.
><https://www.leaddoadapt.com/>
>Chair of the Accelerator <https://napawash.org/fellow/305629> & Distinguished
>Fellow
><https://www.cxotalk.com/bio/dr-david-bray-distinguished-fellow-stimson-center>,
>Stimson Center <https://www.stimson.org/ppl/david-bray/>
>Senior Fellow, Inst. for Human-Machine Cognition
><https://www.ihmc.us/groups/david-bray/> & Expert, MIT Horizon
><https://openlearning.mit.edu/events/bold-brave-and-benevolent-call-action-leaders-active-inference-challenges-genai-and-future>