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Getting to Know the Father of the Internet
It was on this date (June 23) 1943, that Vinton Cerf, who is hard of hearing, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. (image Royal Society) President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert Kahn, in 1977 for founding and developing the Internet. In 2004, the pair received the ACM Alan M. Turing Award, often called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science." In 2005, President George W. Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal
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Happy Birthday to Deaf Actor James Caverly
Below are some facts about James Caverly, who already has a number of acting credits. He was born on this day (Jun 16) in 1989. Born deaf on June 16, 1989 in Royal Oak, Michigan “I am close to profoundly deaf, but I don’t use that term … it’s a medical term. I prefer to use ‘Deaf’ since it’s more of an identity nomenclature than a medical one.” His parents and two younger brothers are hearing, but he has a sister who is deaf His entire family uses ASL He attended a hearing pu
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