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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. And the funny thing is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... if they were starting out now, slashdotters would be cursing their names because its clear that they were trying to foist a proprietary standard over the completely open, free-software friendly, OSI infrastructure, probably with a view to "Embrace and Extend"

    Now a real question : If Baran and Davies had been granted a patent on packet switching networks in 1964, what would the internet look like now?

  2. Nice to see by dj_whitebread · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Turing award is slowly starting to recognize people who have designed, built, and deployed systems. Up until recently, it had been given solely to people in theory.