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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cool

  2. Re:This is a travesty by eclectro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I demand a recount!

    We can not let Bush get away with this!

    --
    Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
  3. Re:About time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    English is vastly over-rated.

  4. Re:This is a travesty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah - just like it did the other 500 times it's been posted. :-/

  5. Re:About time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All Fudged Up?

  6. Re:You mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not only is this painfully old, it's also redundant...

  7. Re:Good to see a news that really matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You must be new here, says the guy with a 700,000+ user ID.