Coat of Arms Order in July 2006 Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn were each inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) in May 2006 He and Robert Kahn were awarded the Japan Prize in January 2008. Cerf was inducted into the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and given the Freedom of the City of London in April 2008. Cerf was awarded an honorary membership in the Yale Political Union after keynoting a lively debate on the subject "Resolved: Online Communities are Real Communities." The motion passed. In celebration of the five year-anniversary of YouTube he was selected as a guest curator by the site, and chose the six videos on YouTube he found most memorable. IEEE-HKN Eta Kappa Nu Eminent Member, 2010 In May 2011, he was awarded an HPI Fellowship as "...a tribute to his work for a new medium which influenced the everyday life of our society like no other one." In September 2011 he was made a distinguished fellow of British Computer Society, in recognition of his outstanding contribution and service to the advancement of computing. In 2012 he was inducted as a Pioneer into the Internet Hall of Fame In 2013, Cerf was one of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. In 2013, Cerf presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture In 2014, Cerf was awarded the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st class for his role in invention of TCP/IP by president of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves In 2014, Cerf was awarded Officer of the French Légion d'honneur In 2015, Cerf received an honorary doctorate from the University of Reading, UK. Cerf was elected a Foreign Member of The UK Royal Society in 2016 In 2018, Cerf was named a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal In 2018, Cerf was awarded Catalonia's International Award In 2023, Cerf was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor for co-creating the Internet architecture and providing sustained leadership in its phenomenal growth in becoming society’s critical infrastructure Partial bibliography Author Zero Text Length EOF Message (, August 1969) IMP-IMP and HOST-HOST Control Links (, September 1969) ASCII format for network interchange (, October 1969) Host-host control message formats (, October 1969) Data transfer protocols (, May 1971) PARRY encounters the DOCTOR (, January 1973) 'Twas the night before start-up (, December 1985) Report of the second Ad