This is KZU, Stanford.

Welcome to entitled opinions.

My name is Robert Harrison,

and we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.

Thank you. I've said it before. It makes no difference to me whether my guests are young or old, obscure or famous, rich or poor, enthusiastic or nihilistic.

They merely have to be able to communicate what they know in a way that makes it worthwhile for you to listen to them for an hour.

We've had some lofty names on the show in the past few years, Nobel laureates,

National Book Award winning authors, and venerable philosophers, one of whom Richard

Rorty sadly passed away not long after his on-air conversation with me in 2005.

Several of you listeners have written to me to say that one thing you like about entitled opinions

is that it keeps you wondering who's going to be on next.

Well, stay tuned. We have quite a fish on the line for you today.

Silence must be heard joining me is Vintanth Joining me in the studio today is Vinton's Sirf.

That's a name that resounds mightily here in Silicon Valley and at Stanford University,

where he earned his undergraduate degree in the 60s,

and where he also taught as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science from 1972 to 1976.

Vince Cerf is known for many things, not the least of which, for being, as the Washington Post once put it, the person most often called the father of the Internet, thanks to his seminal work developing the Internet's essential communications protocols, TCP slash IP, which he developed here at Stanford in the 70s.

When Google hired VintSurf away from MCI in 2005 and made him vice president of the company,

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt declared in an interview,

VintSurf is one of the most important people alive

today. Anyone who believes that the Internet is the greatest revolution in our lifetime is likely to agree with that assessment.

For a show called Entitled Opinions, Vince Surf is an especially appropriate guest,

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