Vinton Cerf, one of the architects of the modern internet and widely known as the "Father of the Internet", is set to retire from Google next week after more than two decades as the company's vice president and chief internet evangelist.

Cerf's retirement was announced during the Open Frontier conference hosted by the Laude Institute, where Dave Patterson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, acknowledged the milestone.

83-year-old Cerf is widely recognised, alongside Robert Kahn, for developing the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), the networking protocols that underpin today's internet. Their work, which began in the 1970s, established the standards that allow different computer networks to communicate and has earned Cerf numerous honours, including the Turing Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Cerf joined Google in 2005 as vice president and chief internet evangelist, a role focused on promoting the development and adoption of internet technologies.