March 31, 2000

An Internet Pioneer Plans to Begin Extending the Network to Mars

Expanding the Internet is a popular idea these days, but one Internet pioneer is involved in a very ambitious project -- expanding the network to other planets.

"We've done a pretty good job of at least getting networking started on planet Earth, but our next target is Mars," said Vinton G. Cerf, the computer engineer who is largely credited with designing TCP/IP, the standard protocol for the Internet, when he was a professor at Stanford University in the

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