From the Apollo rocket engines he tested as a teenager to a network meant to span the solar system, Vint Cerf spent fifty years teaching the world's computers to speak one language. He leaves Google at 83 with a parting argument: the age of AI agents will need his life's work more than ever.

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

Vinton Cerf, co-inventor of TCP/IP and Google's chief internet evangelist since 2005, is retiring. Here's what his legacy means for crypto and internet