Vint Cerf, widely credited as the father of the internet, will step down next week from his role as Google's chief internet evangelist, ending a run of more than 20 years at the company.

The news broke not through a Google statement but during a panel at the Open Frontier conference, hosted by the Laude Institute. Dave Patterson, the UC Berkeley professor who co-designed Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor architecture, noted........

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