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ACM to Honor TCP/IP Creators with Turing Award

Posted by Zonk on from the i-heart-packets dept.

bth writes "The New York Times reports that Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn will receive the ACM Turing Award. According to the ACM website: The Association for Computing Machinery, has named Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn the winners of the 2004 A.M. Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," for pioneering work on the design and implementation of the Internet's basic communications protocols." Commentary from Groklaw also available.

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  1. Re:This is a travesty by gowen · · Score: 5, Informative
    I am taking the liberty of sending to you both a brief summary of Al Gore's Internet involvement, prepared by Bob Kahn and me. As you know, there have been a seemingly unending series of jokes chiding the vice president for his assertion that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet."

    Bob and I believe that the vice president deserves significant credit for his early recognition of the importance of what has become the Internet.
    Vint Cerf on Al Gore's important role in the creation of the internet (Link leads to full statement).
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    Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
  2. Re:Packet switching before them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the article!

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    Most notably, for the last 10 years, Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been laying claim to having invented packet switching, the general method of splitting up a message into digital packets, routing the packets individually and reassembling the message on the other end.

    Until Dr. Kleinrock began making his case prominently, two others, Paul Baran and Donald W. Davies, had been widely recognized as packet switching's inventors. Dr. Davies died in 2000.

    In recent years, Lawrence G. Roberts, who in the late 1960's designed the Arpanet, a precursor of the Internet, has been a supporter of Dr. Kleinrock's claim.

  3. Re:It's suprising by C10H14N2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, it's surprising Jon Postel's name is still so rarely even mentioned.
    In Vinton Cerf's words:
    ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2468.txt
    http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/sprin g99/Postel/postel.html