Upon his passing in 1985 many of his friends, colleagues and former students established a permanent memorial, the Elliott I. Organick Endowment. This endowment enhances the Computer Science environment in Utah through a pair of lectures which are the highlight public events of each academic year.

This year's lectures will be given by Vinton G. Cerf, Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy at MCI, Inc. The lectures will be given at the following dates and times:

Internet Past, Present and Future"
• Monday, April 18, 2005
  7:30 p.m.
  Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library
  
  
  
  
  Technological Challenges for Computer Science and the Internet
• Tuesday, April 19, 2005
  Refreshments 3:20 p.m.
  Lecture 3:40 p.m.
  Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library
  
  
  
  Vinton Cerf
  Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Vinton G. Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. He serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.
  
  Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award. His doctorate in Computer Science is from UCLA, and he has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from nine institutions.