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Vint Cerf, known for his leading role in creating the Internet, will visit Seoul next month to attend an international forum, informed sources said Friday.

The 64-year-old American computer scientist was invited to the forum, to be held by the South Korean daily Maeil Business Newspaper in mid-October, they said.

Cerf, along with Bob Kahn, is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role in the creation of the Internet and its protocol during the 1970s.

He had served at various posts of tech companies and research institutions including IBM, MCI and Internet Society before joining the world's largest Internet search company Google Inc. in 2005 as a vice president. Details of his itinerary have yet to be disclosed other than a scheduled press conference with local reporters.

SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Yonhap)