Vint Cerf  is the father of the internet. He created the TCP/IP protocol that is the communication protocol of the internet. He created it  in 1973. He works now at google as vice president. I have met him few times over the years in my former work for www.ripe.net. There he controlled a group implementing ipv6. Good information about him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf