Vint G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn, the duo credited with the seminal work during the 1970s that led the creation of the Internet, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang for a Presidential Lecture Series event in September, coinciding with the 60th anniversary celebration of Purdue’s historic launch of the nation’s first academic computer science department.? 

The discussion with Cerf and Kahn, who are commonly called the “Fathers of the Internet,” is at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall.  Seating is reserved.

The Presidential Lecture event, which is free and open to the public, is titled “Origins of the Internet and its Subsequent Evolution” and comes a half-century since the pivotal period of Cerf and Kahn’s groundbreaking work.