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Cerf's up: Google says it's boosting the company's already strong geek cred by hiring Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to serve as its "Chief Internet Evangelist."
Cerf, 62, was an engineer at the United States Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1976 to 1982, where he helped design TCP/IP, the suite of communications protocols that is used to connect computers on the Internet. Later, while working at MCI (nasdaq: MCIP - news - people ), he helped design the first commercial e-mail service to be connected to the Internet. He's the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, the Association for Computing Machinery's "Turing Award," and is chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.
"Vint Cerf is clearly one of the great technology leaders of our time," said Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people )Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, in a statement. "His vision for technology helped create entire industries that have transformed many parts of our lives. We are honored to welcome him to Google."
In his role as Google's Internet Evangelist, Cerf will help the company build network infrastructure, architectures, systems, and standards for the next generation of Internet applications. He will also continue his efforts on other projects, including ICANN and the Interplanetary Network, a project of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, which aims to extend the Internet into outer space for planet-to-planet communications.
Based in San Francisco, IGN operates a number of sites including GameSpy, AskMen.com, Rotten Tomatoes, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, 3D Gamers, Direct2Drive, GameStats.com and IGN FilmForce.
On deal completion, IGN will fold into News Corps's Fox Interactive Media Unit, giving Murdoch's rapidly expanding online empire access to 70m users a month flicking through 12bn pages of content a month.
Said Murdoch in a statement: "With the acquisition of IGN and its 28m unique users, we have gone a long way toward achieving two of our key strategic objectives in our efforts to become a leading and profitable internet presence.
Monitoring population levels and conducting research on Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) is difficult due to their pelagic habits and the remote locations of their haulout sites. Monitoring the use of their terrestrial haulouts can provide an index to population changes; however, due to large fluctuations in haulout use, near constant monitoring is required to account for variability. Using onsite personnel to provide this level of constant monitoring is time-intensive and expensive resulting in an incomplete picture of the use of haulouts.
Efforts to promote education and conservation programs on a little understood species, or a species rarely encountered by the general public, are usually much more effective when the species is more accessible to public viewing. In North America, the Pacific walrus only inhabits the remote areas of the Bering and Chukchi seas. Therefore, only those people that live in remote villages in this region and the few visitors that venture to the isolated haulouts are privileged enough to observe walrus firsthand.
Marking 10 years in the Philippines this month, software giant Microsoft is eyeing the launch of a low-priced Filipino version of Windows XP as another milestone in its efforts to make computing more accessible.
In an interview with Standard Today, Microsoft Phils. general manager Antonio “TJ” Javier said a product team in Redmond is working on a localized version of Windows that they hope will be completed before the year is out.
The localized version builds on the Filipino glossary of computing terms put together earlier this year by a third-party software developer and national artist and poet Virgilio Almario, dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.
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