the interview

The Interview – Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet

Vint Cerf, along with Bob Kahn, developed TCP/IP, the communications protocol that lies at the heart of the Internet. Without that, nothing works, hence many calling Cerf and Kahn the fathers of the Internet.

When he joined Google, after he was talked out of working as an Archduke, was given the title of Chief Internet Evangelist. We talked about the design of the Internet and how its open nature was achieved, reaching the last billion users and using the Internet for education

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The Interview – Edgar Wright, ‘Attack The Block’

talk to the team behind 2011’s ‘Attack The Block’, where a teenage street gang have to defend themselves from predatory alien invaders on a council estate in South London.

It’s an interview as part of the promotional cattle call, so everyone lined up for the interview gets ten minutes from walking in the room to walking out, with no do-overs. This was part of the promo circuit for Attack The Block; exec produced by Edgar Wright, directed by Joe Cornish, and a cast list including Nick Frost. All three are in the room, so it’s a hectic who gets what question ahead of the midnight premiere of the film at Austin’s SXSW Film Festival in 2011.

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